Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] Re: [PATCH 26/37] dvb: add support for plls used by nxt200x | From | Andreas Oberritter <> | Date | Fri, 04 Nov 2005 01:51:08 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 03:46 +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > We have in the DVB subsystem most of the exported symbols as > EXPORT_SYMBOL itself, rather than EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. I think if this > needs to be changed, we would require a global change of all symbols to > the same to maintain consistency. If you require that change we can have > a change but i would think that the discussions be done with the > relevant copyright holders too, eventhough probably most of the authors > won't have any objection.
I don't know if I ever contributed code to the DVB subsystem which is actually exported, but in case I did, then I am against changing the affected EXPORT_SYMBOLs.
This would make it impossible to the use source code of most hardware vendors for embedded products because they usually have different licenses for their "run-on-every-embedded-platform-and-even-on-windows" drivers.
Also I remember people telling on lkml that EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL was used for new kernel internal code only and I can't see how this applies to dvb-pll or any other part of the dvb subsystem which grew up outside the kernel tree.
Regards, Andreas
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