Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] Re: [PATCH 26/37] dvb: add support for plls used by nxt200x

[Andreas Oberritter <obi@linuxtv.org>]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 03:46 +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
> We have in the DVB subsystem most of the exported symbols as 
> EXPORT_SYMBOL itself, rather than EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. I think if this 
> needs to be changed, we would require a global change of all symbols to 
> the same to maintain consistency. If you require that change we can have 
> a change but i would think that the discussions be done with the 
> relevant copyright holders too, eventhough probably most of the authors 
> won't have any objection.

I don't know if I ever contributed code to the DVB subsystem which is
actually exported, but in case I did, then I am against changing the
affected EXPORT_SYMBOLs.

This would make it impossible to the use source code of most hardware
vendors for embedded products because they usually have different
licenses for their "run-on-every-embedded-platform-and-even-on-windows"
drivers.

Also I remember people telling on lkml that EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL was used
for new kernel internal code only and I can't see how this applies to
dvb-pll or any other part of the dvb subsystem which grew up outside the
kernel tree.

Regards,
Andreas