Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:39:59 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause? |
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:18:00PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > interfaces, the EXPORT_GPL stuff, all of that as a way to delibrately
forget EXPORT_GPL, that's an hint, all _GPL can be removed, and any EXPORT_SYMBOL can be added. what is a derived work or not, what is legal or not, has nothing to do with whatever EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL or even with EXPORT_SYMBOL.
Clearly if we export everything with EXPORT_SYMBOL we make life easier to illegal people, that's why using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL can make sense, but any distributor is free to drop all _GPL tags everywhere, and export every single kernel function with EXPORT_SYMBOL. If somebody than makes a derived work through those exported symbols illegally, that's his own problem. The distributor has no control on the export symbol users.
just look vmmon, that's a derived work with a non GPL compatible licence, it does everything through exported symbols but it doesn't mean it's not a derivative work. - 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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