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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Stelian Pop <stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules...
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:28:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020403162806.A20151@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020403210754.AAA22091@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> <E16ssNa-0004ZV-00@the-village.bc.nu>

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:33:18PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > allow other people to use and modify it. You can't have it both ways -- 
> > there's no such thing as 'GPL but with a few extra restrictions I've added to 
> > the code that everyone's contributed to'.
> 
> Nor is there "GPL with a few things ignored". 

Sure there is.  I don't think the kernel's under one, though.  They're
all over the place:  For instance, the libgcc license is "GPL except
anything can use it if compiled with GCC".  Various SSL-using programs
are distributed under "GPL but you can link it to OpenSSL anyway".

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-03 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-20 13:13 [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules Stelian Pop
2002-02-20 16:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-20 16:01   ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-04-03 16:21     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-03 17:43       ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 18:13         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-03 19:11           ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 19:23             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-03 20:05             ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-03 20:27               ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-03 21:22               ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 21:26                 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-03 21:48                   ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 19:03         ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-03 19:10           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-03 19:19             ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-03 19:24               ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-03 21:05                 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-03 21:25                   ` Alan Cox
2002-04-04  6:43                     ` Keith Owens
2002-04-04 10:22                       ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-04 10:35                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-04-04 11:54                         ` Alan Cox
2002-04-04 12:01                           ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-04 12:31                             ` Adrian Bunk
2002-04-04 12:48                               ` Russell King
2002-04-04 12:40                             ` Russell King
2002-04-04 12:46                               ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-05  7:29                               ` David Schwartz
2002-04-05  8:24                                 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-04-05  8:28                                   ` David Schwartz
2002-04-04 13:26                             ` Ingo Molnar
2002-04-04 15:21                               ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-05  9:25                                 ` Paul Gortmaker
2002-04-04 15:35                               ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-04 16:55                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-04 17:16                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-04-04 17:46                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-04-04 17:59                                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-04-04 18:15                                   ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-05  0:47                                   ` Linux kernel and binary drivers (was: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules...) Steffen Persvold
2002-04-04 15:55                               ` [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules Richard B. Johnson
2002-04-04 16:14                                 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-04 16:15                                 ` Peter Horton
2002-04-04 16:23                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-04-04 16:38                                 ` Michael Clark
2002-04-04 20:57                                 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-04-04 16:44                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-04 17:16                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-04-04 18:00                                 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-04 16:42                             ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-03 19:29             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-03 19:38             ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 19:25               ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-03 19:44                 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 19:39                   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-03 20:35               ` Gerd Knorr
2002-04-03 22:17                 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-04-03 22:24                   ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-03 22:33                     ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-03 22:35                       ` David S. Miller
2002-04-06  9:08                         ` David Woodhouse
2002-04-03 22:39                       ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-04  5:59                         ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-04-04 12:06                           ` Alan Cox
2002-04-04  9:33             ` Ingo Molnar
2002-04-03 19:26           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-03 19:35           ` Alan Cox
2002-04-05  6:06             ` David Schwartz
2002-04-05 12:48               ` Alan Cox
2002-04-05 18:46                 ` David Schwartz
2002-04-05 19:27                   ` Alan Cox
2002-04-05 20:05                     ` David Schwartz
2002-04-06 17:55                   ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 19:19         ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-03 21:07         ` David Schwartz
2002-04-03 21:33           ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 21:28             ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-04-03 22:09             ` David Schwartz
2002-04-04  6:26         ` Kai Henningsen
2002-04-04  8:44           ` Adrian Bunk
2002-04-04 12:01           ` Alan Cox
2002-02-20 16:27   ` Ingo Molnar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-03 23:47 Petr Vandrovec
2002-04-04  0:19 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-04 11:54 Petr Vandrovec
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0204041217290.18660-100000@imladris.surriel .com>
2002-04-04 16:11 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-04 16:29   ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204041123410.6422-100000@devserv.devel.redh at.com>
2002-04-04 17:06 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-04 17:55   ` Alan Cox
2002-04-04 17:52     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-04 17:27 Nicholas Berry
2002-04-05 13:22 Gareth Hughes
2002-04-09  6:55 Rick A. Hohensee

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