Re: MODULE_LICENSE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

John Alvord
2001-10-19T00:46:20Z

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:38:36 -0700 (PDT), David Lang
<david.lang@digitalinsight.com> wrote:

>so what will the export_symbol_gpl stuff do with the BSD license? it may
>or may not have source avilable so is it allowed to use the exported
>symbols or not?
>
>for the tainting module process there is the same problem.
>
>knowing the license the code was released under does not tell you if the
>source is available or not.
Linus said that all existing entry points would remain untagged. Thus
existing modules would not be affected.

john