Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

Alan Cox
2008-02-07T14:35:26Z

> It's nonsense, it's a reasonable reading of the GPL. What I am doing is
> telling you what the GPL says, not what you wish it said.

In which case for each statement please give the case at appeal or higher
level which is the precedent for the interpretation.

> > If the developers say that this symbol can only be used in GPL code (and
> > with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL it is quite clear) then you have to obey to that
> > license or don't use this symbol at all.
> >
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is not a licence. Only a licence is a licence.

Export symbol is a guide. There is no reason to think that EXPORT_SYMBOL
symbols alone mean your work is somehow not derivative.