Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario | | From | David Woodhouse <> | | Date | Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:19:35 +0000 |
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:26 +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: > > On December 6th, 2005 the kernel developers en mass decide that binary > > modules are legally fine and also essential for the progress of linux, > Has anyone (influential) actually being toying with this idea? I hope not, but > if they are, I'd like to know who to lobby...
http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e3c3374fbf7efe9487edc53cd10436ed641983aa
Remember that the only distinction between EXPORT_SYMBOL() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() is that the latter is a technological measure to prevent abuse. The use of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() cannot actually impose any additional restrictions over and above what the GPL requires of EXPORT_SYMBOL() -- because any additional restrictions would themselves violate the GPL.
Thus, the only point in the above-linked patch is to remove a technical measure which prevents abuse. I feel very strongly that it should be reverted.
-- dwmw2
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