From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Werner Sembach <wse@tuxedocomputers.com>
Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>,
"Luis Chamberlain" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
tux@tuxedocomputers.com, "Petr Pavlu" <petr.pavlu@suse.com>,
"Sami Tolvanen" <samitolvanen@google.com>,
"Daniel Gomez" <da.gomez@samsung.com>,
linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Thorsten Leemhuis" <linux@leemhuis.info>,
"Vinzenz Vietzke" <vv@tuxedocomputers.com>,
"Christoffer Sandberg" <cs@tuxedo.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] module: Block modules by Tuxedo from accessing GPL symbols
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:18:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2024111522-brush-excusably-cae5@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58b85a78-55aa-422c-a21d-254eb16cc8c6@tuxedocomputers.com>
On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 10:00:23AM +0100, Werner Sembach wrote:
> I guess what I try to convince you and others is that we _are_ taking Open
> Source licenses seriously, but still there are mistakes to be made,
> especially with complex projects like the Linux kernel, e.g. I'm not aware
> of any other project that uses a similar construct to
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()/MODULE_LICENSE().
The Linux kernel is very simple from a license point of view, your code
has to be GPLv2 compatible. That's it, nothing complex or odd about
that at all.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-11-15 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2024-11-14 10:31 ` [PATCH 0/2] module: Block modules by Tuxedo from accessing GPL symbols Uwe Kleine-König
2024-11-14 10:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] module: Put known GPL offenders in an array Uwe Kleine-König
2024-11-14 16:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-11-15 4:40 ` Greg KH
2024-11-14 10:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] module: Block modules by Tuxedo from accessing GPL symbols Uwe Kleine-König
2024-11-14 11:56 ` Daniel Gomez
2024-11-15 4:40 ` Greg KH
2024-11-14 16:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-11-14 19:21 ` Aaron Rainbolt
2024-11-14 23:06 ` Al Viro
2024-11-15 4:40 ` Greg KH
2024-11-18 10:11 ` Werner Sembach
2024-11-14 10:49 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Werner Sembach
2024-11-14 11:14 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2024-11-14 11:44 ` Werner Sembach
2024-11-16 17:49 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2024-11-16 18:41 ` Werner Sembach
2024-11-15 4:43 ` Greg KH
2024-11-15 6:09 ` Werner Sembach
2024-11-15 6:30 ` Greg KH
2024-11-15 7:29 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2024-11-15 9:00 ` Werner Sembach
2024-11-15 9:18 ` Greg KH [this message]
2024-11-15 9:40 ` Werner Sembach
2024-11-15 10:22 ` Greg KH
2024-11-15 10:59 ` Werner Sembach
2024-11-15 12:01 ` Greg KH
2024-11-15 10:51 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2024-11-15 11:01 ` Werner Sembach
2024-11-14 11:50 ` Daniel Gomez
2024-11-20 14:11 ` Hans de Goede
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