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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, crispin@wirex.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make LSM register functions GPLonly exports
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:13:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021017161325.A29415@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021017150740.GA31056@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:07:41AM -0700

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:07:41AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:35:05PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > These exports have the power to change the implementations of all
> > syscalls and I've seen people exploiting this "feature".
> > 
> > Make the exports GPLonly (which some LSM folks agreed to
> > when it was merged initially to avoid that).
> 
> I would really, really, really like to make this change.  Unfortunatly,
> one of the current copyright holders of this file does not agree with
> it.
> 
> Crispin, for the benifit of the lkml readers, can you explain why WireX
> does not want this change?

It's GPLed.  It doesn't matter who holds the copyright.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-17 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-17 14:35 [PATCH] make LSM register functions GPLonly exports Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-17 15:07 ` Greg KH
2002-10-17 15:13   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-10-17 16:21   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-17 16:51   ` Crispin Cowan
2002-10-17 16:54     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-17 17:08       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-17 17:20         ` Greg KH
2002-10-17 17:25         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-17 20:39           ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-17 17:44         ` Crispin Cowan
2002-10-17 18:03           ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-10-17 17:20       ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-10-17 17:26         ` Linus Torvalds

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