Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:19:11 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules... |
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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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