From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: daniel.blueman@gmail.com
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Runar Ingebrigtsen <runar@mopo.no>,
Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
Subject: Re: Help porting wireless InProComm IPN 2220 driver to 2.6
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:36:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126787812.3014.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6278d22205091504232ac3d8c3@mail.gmail.com>
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> This depends if the module uses any symbols exported from the kernel
> with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), and clearly the module license - 'strings'
> should be enough do check this is you don't have a MIPS platform to
> hand.
actually it doesn't.
For one, there is section 2 of the GPL which clearly forbids this
For another, EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL presence does NOT mean that it's ok to
use EXPORT_SYMBOL symbols without any license/copyright considerations
at all. The kernel is GPL licensed, without any exceptions.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-15 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-15 10:44 Help porting wireless InProComm IPN 2220 driver to 2.6 Daniel J Blueman
2005-09-15 11:16 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-09-15 11:23 ` Daniel J Blueman
2005-09-15 11:45 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-09-15 12:36 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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2005-09-14 22:15 Runar Ingebrigtsen
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