Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Jul 2013 09:57:08 +0200 | Subject | Re: Wrapping EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL symbols and re-exporting the wrappers with EXPORT_SYMBOL | From | richard -rw- weinberger <> |
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On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 03:32:27PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: >> I just got a new wireless router and stumbled across an odd set of >> out-of-tree modules, where two GPL licensed modules were used by a third >> proprietary licensed one. >> >> The nice router vendor sent me the GPL'd source code, and as expected >> the GPL modules are little more than wrappers working around the >> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL restrictions. Here's a complete example of one of >> them: > > I'm wondering if we could fail building modules which do EXPORT_SYMBOL.
Then vendors will do a s/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL/EXPORT_SYMBOL/g on the kernel. Recently I've identified such a case.
Bjørn, please post this on legal@lists.gpl-violations.org too.
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