From: "Jouni Malinen" <jkm@devicescape.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>,
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ieee80211-crypt: Make some TKIP and CCMP error loggingconditional on IEEE80211_DEBUG_DROP
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:41:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070417154146.GA22909@devicescape.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1176819909.26202.33.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:25:08AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> What's the rationale for mac80211 _not_ using _GPL exports? I thought
> most new exports were pretty much required to be _GPL (otherwise
> somebody would NAK it) unless it was really, really necessary that they
> weren't.
Where is this kind of "requirement" documented? I was under the
impression that in general, the authors could decide how the symbols
gets exported as far as using _GPL or not is concerned.
My personal view on this _GPL in exports is that it is just unnecessary
extra complexity in the implementation and there should not be any place
for license enforcement in the kernel implementation; this is better
left for the license text and things completely outside the source code.
As such, I have a preference of not seeing _GPL added to code that is
derived from anything I've written.
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Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-17 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-09 16:24 [PATCH] ieee80211-crypt: Make some TKIP and CCMP error logging conditional on IEEE80211_DEBUG_DROP Larry Finger
2007-04-16 18:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-04-16 18:50 ` Larry Finger
2007-04-16 20:37 ` Michael Buesch
2007-04-17 0:24 ` Larry Finger
2007-04-17 13:12 ` John W. Linville
2007-04-17 14:25 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-17 15:21 ` John W. Linville
2007-04-17 18:49 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-17 15:41 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2007-04-17 20:40 ` [PATCH] ieee80211-crypt: Make some TKIP and CCMP error loggingconditional " Michael Buesch
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