Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:09:36 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test10-mm1 |
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:42:51AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > The individual patches in the broken-out/ directory are usually > changelogged. This one says: > > It was EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), however IBM's GPFS is not GPL. > > - the GPFS team contributed to the testing and development of > invaldiate_mmap_range(). > > - GPFS was developed under AIX and was ported to Linux, and hence meets > Linus's "some binary modules are OK" exemption. > > - The export makes sense: clustering filesystems need it for shootdowns to > ensure cache coherency.
Have you actually looked at the gpfs glue code? something that digs that deep into the VM and VFS actually _must_ be derived work. Or do wed allow people now to pay a developer tax to buy themselves free from GPL restrictions.
I as one of the collective copytight holders of the kernel strongly disagree with that, it can't be true that IBM can just ignore copyright law.. - 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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