From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
paulmck@us.ibm.com, arjanv@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:32:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040219123237.B22406@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040218153234.3956af3a.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 03:32:34PM -0800
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 03:32:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Yes. We've traditionally not exported symbols unless we had an intree user,
> > and especially not if it's for a module that's not GPL licensed.
>
> That's certainly a good rule of thumb and we (and I) have used it before.
>
> What is the reasoning behind it?
The reason is that someone who wants to distribute a binary only module
has to show it's module is not a derived work, and someone who needs new
core in the kernel and new exports pretty much shows his work is deeply
integrated with the kernel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-19 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-16 19:09 Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-17 2:31 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-17 7:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-17 12:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 0:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 12:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-18 14:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 21:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 15:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 22:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 22:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 23:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 16:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-19 12:32 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-02-19 18:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-19 19:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 13:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 3:17 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-20 21:46 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-19 0:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 18:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 12:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 9:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
[not found] ` <20040219183210.GX14000@marowsky-bree.de>
2004-02-19 18:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-19 19:16 ` viro
2004-02-19 16:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 18:59 ` Tim Bird
2004-02-19 9:11 ` David Weinehall
2004-02-19 8:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-03-04 5:51 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-19 10:29 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-19 9:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 11:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-19 11:53 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-18 18:04 ` Tim Bird
2004-02-19 20:56 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 22:06 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2004-02-19 22:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 16:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 2:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 19:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 5:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 12:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 20:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 14:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 23:00 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 16:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-21 3:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 21:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-20 22:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 23:56 ` GFS requirements (was: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range) Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-21 3:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-21 14:17 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-21 19:09 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-22 10:37 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-24 18:26 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-18 12:12 ` Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range Dominik Kubla
[not found] ` <24651326.1077037044@42.150.104.212.access.eclipse.net.uk>
2004-02-18 13:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-17 22:22 ` David Weinehall
[not found] ` <200402211400.16779.phillips@arcor.de>
[not found] ` <20040222233911.GB1311@us.ibm.com>
2004-02-25 21:04 ` [RFC] Distributed mmap API Daniel Phillips
2004-02-25 19:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-25 19:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-25 22:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-25 22:16 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:46 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-03 3:00 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-03 3:15 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-03 13:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-04 18:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
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