Messages in this thread | | | Date | 04 Apr 2002 08:26:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules... |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) wrote on 03.04.02 in <E16soms-0004Au-00@the-village.bc.nu>:
> > 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.
Frankly, I believe that it is both illegal (by the GPL) and morally bankrupt to add these "GPL only" symbols to the kernel *unless* you can get agreement for them fro *all* kernel copyright holders.
Which I predict you won't get.
That is, except when you handle the "_GPL" as a meaningless adornment.
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