Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:17:02 +0100 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: MODULE_LICENSE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL |
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> Exported interfaces are "methods of operation" in the sense of US > Copyright Law. Copyright Law affords no protection to "methods of > operation". The GPL, which gains its strength from Copyright Law, also > has no rights in this area. If a GPLed module does not want other code > using its interfaces, they should not be exported.
I think you're missing one thing: binary only modules are only allowed because of an exception license grant Linus made for functions that are marked EXPORT_SYMBOL(). EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() just says "not part of this exception grant".... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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