From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.tuxedocomputers.com (mail.tuxedocomputers.com [157.90.84.7]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D4161190468; Fri, 15 Nov 2024 09:40:59 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=157.90.84.7 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1731663663; cv=none; b=fTmrWLJ9zkk885dFQHeN430FW/G6Sqw4Wwxiv82Ih1T68ifaebNTaC7bO569ZcBcw6KXPnjO1B8DdxiSvC3kAjfmOXozn7QIQox6tjWszaqCDhg6AxmwVXStxFRJpqun1IKIKxNT9wQtmdrIXzo99H6j31D3mxBsW5+HIJr/2gg= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1731663663; c=relaxed/simple; bh=DhIh0e33nWUyDev3Jch1s8YrhbuT4Nydp2hlrdmM0JQ=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=qGLdl1xJiMMSAogSSl1Ksj2wvI9JAHyK+3qHVSHOrmR/63jK7qy4NT6wUXklgFeNNzIRkL/7R+GUonQgByJkFbLg0t9eINmTJojm0y8Buag3IYRidJ2zCDvKWrOhRJO4zmAgtljGN/ctG4c3HaYzv198w+gW5Be+yoHXaV4R0uY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=tuxedocomputers.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=tuxedocomputers.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=tuxedocomputers.com header.i=@tuxedocomputers.com header.b=MDrdPek7; arc=none smtp.client-ip=157.90.84.7 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=tuxedocomputers.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=tuxedocomputers.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=tuxedocomputers.com header.i=@tuxedocomputers.com header.b="MDrdPek7" Received: from [192.168.42.96] (p5de457db.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.228.87.219]) (Authenticated sender: wse@tuxedocomputers.com) by mail.tuxedocomputers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 831F92FC0057; Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:40:56 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxedocomputers.com; s=default; t=1731663657; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=OFukgKvCJJohyeiFlhpMtmGg5pydgykofogssL94ge0=; b=MDrdPek72n3sQLdZ2kX3coEnfJf/SY1gyAFcKxv/xZLnWN1ldFKdp7PbRq5YWCaNdH/daS erNpfugXBAlha/KnJ1x1ZhOtmhznMCoCFD0xySnUulNyuBsv7BmRo3duhxYKkxHq8ijPmW wkZKud/AXlguWs5zvKp6Wl5L1T/qKO4= Authentication-Results: mail.tuxedocomputers.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=wse@tuxedocomputers.com smtp.mailfrom=wse@tuxedocomputers.com Message-ID: <3ea99d52-cafb-4c79-a78b-fdd1f9a9fcd5@tuxedocomputers.com> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:40:56 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] module: Block modules by Tuxedo from accessing GPL symbols To: Greg KH Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Uwe_Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= , Luis Chamberlain , tux@tuxedocomputers.com, Petr Pavlu , Sami Tolvanen , Daniel Gomez , linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thorsten Leemhuis , Vinzenz Vietzke , Christoffer Sandberg References: <20241114103133.547032-4-ukleinek@kernel.org> <2024111557-unlighted-giggle-0d86@gregkh> <6c1952bc-f58d-4c55-887e-6aa247daec5c@tuxedocomputers.com> <58b85a78-55aa-422c-a21d-254eb16cc8c6@tuxedocomputers.com> <2024111522-brush-excusably-cae5@gregkh> Content-Language: en-US From: Werner Sembach In-Reply-To: <2024111522-brush-excusably-cae5@gregkh> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Am 15.11.24 um 10:18 schrieb Greg KH: > 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. Then why does the proprietary NVIDIA driver exist? > > thanks, > > greg k-h