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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules...


    On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

    > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfree);
    > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc);
    > > -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmalloc_to_page);
    > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_to_page);
    >
    > The authors of that code made it GPL. You have no right to change that. Its
    > exactly the same as someone taking all your code and making it binary only.
    >
    > You are
    > - subverting a digital rights management system
    > [5 years jail in the USA]
    > - breaking a license
    >
    > but worse than that you are ignoring the basic moral rights of the authors
    > of that code.

    Alan, that's crap. The function in question can be trivially turned into
    extern inline and removed from export list completely. _If_ such change
    can be made illegal by exporting uninligned version with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
    - I'm going to fork the tree *now* and start replacing the stuff exported
    that way with untainted clean reimplementations. As much as I despise
    binary-only modules, any mechanism that allows games of that kind needs
    to be killed. One shouldn't be able to prohibit equivalent transformations
    of core code (and inlining a function _is_ such transformation) by pulling
    the licensing crap.

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