From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Roy Murphy <murphy@panix.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MODULE_LICENSE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:17:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BCEF26E.12D69882@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3bceefa6.3cf6.0@panix.com>
> Exported interfaces are "methods of operation" in the sense of US
> Copyright Law. Copyright Law affords no protection to "methods of
> operation". The GPL, which gains its strength from Copyright Law, also
> has no rights in this area. If a GPLed module does not want other code
> using its interfaces, they should not be exported.
I think you're missing one thing: binary only modules are only allowed
because of an exception license grant Linus made for functions that are
marked EXPORT_SYMBOL(). EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() just says "not part of this
exception grant"....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-18 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-18 16:05 MODULE_LICENSE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL Roy Murphy
2001-10-18 15:17 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2001-10-19 15:30 ` Taral
2001-10-21 15:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-21 20:16 ` Taral
2001-10-19 17:06 ` David Woodhouse
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-19 18:03 Roy Murphy
2001-10-18 16:43 Roy Murphy
2001-10-18 15:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-10-18 18:42 ` Tim Bird
2001-10-19 15:38 ` Taral
2001-10-18 16:07 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2001-10-18 22:38 ` David Lang
2001-10-19 0:46 ` John Alvord
2001-10-18 23:57 ` David Lang
2001-10-19 12:44 ` Reid Hekman
2001-10-19 20:07 ` David Lang
2001-10-20 0:00 ` Reid Hekman
2001-10-20 6:38 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-21 15:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-21 15:47 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-18 3:23 Keith Owens
2001-10-18 4:03 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-19 7:16 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-10-19 8:26 ` Nils Philippsen
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