From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Prabhakar Mahadev Lad <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@gmail.com>,
Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>,
Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
"linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] memory: renesas-rpc-if: Export symbols as GPL
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2021 17:21:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210703152133.GA3004@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OSBPR01MB5048DD433E56143A04961153AAF70@OSBPR01MB5048.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com>
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Hi!
> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 07:11:46PM +0000, Lad Prabhakar wrote:
> > > Renesas RPC-IF driver is licensed under GPL2.0, to be in sync export the
> > > symbols as GPL.
> >
> > It's not a valid reason to export them as GPL. Entire Linux source code
> > is licensed as GPL-2.0, so are you going to change all EXPORT_SYMBOL to
> > GPL?
> >
> Agreed not a valid case. That clears my understanding wrt GPL exports 😊
Actually, you have just acquired wrong understanding of GPL
exports. We normally export everything as _GPL unless there is very
very very good reason not to do so.
(The reason EXPORT_SYMBOL even exists are very obscure usecases of
modules ported from non-free operating systems).
Best regards,
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-03 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-26 19:11 [PATCH v2 0/5] memory: renesas-rpc-if: Trivial fixes Lad Prabhakar
2020-11-26 19:11 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] memory: renesas-rpc-if: Return correct value to the caller of rpcif_manual_xfer() Lad Prabhakar
2020-11-27 9:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-11-27 22:38 ` Pavel Machek
2020-11-28 11:32 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2020-11-26 19:11 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] memory: renesas-rpc-if: Fix unbalanced pm_runtime_enable in rpcif_{enable,disable}_rpm Lad Prabhakar
2020-11-26 19:33 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2020-11-28 11:33 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2020-11-26 19:11 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] memory: renesas-rpc-if: Fix a reference leak in rpcif_probe() Lad Prabhakar
2020-11-27 9:33 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-11-27 22:41 ` Pavel Machek
2020-11-28 11:35 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2020-11-26 19:11 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] memory: renesas-rpc-if: Make rpcif_enable/disable_rpm() as static inline Lad Prabhakar
2020-11-27 22:41 ` Pavel Machek
2020-11-28 11:37 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2020-11-26 19:11 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] memory: renesas-rpc-if: Export symbols as GPL Lad Prabhakar
2020-11-28 11:41 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2020-11-28 12:46 ` Prabhakar Mahadev Lad
2021-07-03 15:21 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2020-11-26 19:37 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] memory: renesas-rpc-if: Trivial fixes Sergei Shtylyov
2020-12-03 10:41 ` Lad, Prabhakar
2020-12-03 10:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-12-03 12:34 ` Prabhakar Mahadev Lad
2020-12-03 13:19 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2020-12-04 9:46 ` Lad, Prabhakar
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