From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: usage of _GPL
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:38:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120119153845.GA32305@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ9orWRtS+qz0W0pZf30DW-S3cc=4RDtpfvcrFv5sVVct05S4Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:36:07PM +0530, sumeet linux wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can anyone clarify that when should I use _GPL and when not ?
> Is there a policy like for new code, it must be _GPL ?
> I see in kernel many places _GPL used like EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL( ), but many
> places only EXPORT_SYMBOL( ).
It is up to the author of the code what they wish to use.
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2012-01-19 12:06 usage of _GPL sumeet linux
2012-01-19 15:38 ` Greg KH [this message]
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