Re: [RFC] Small PCI core patch

Greg KH
2005-11-22T19:37:11Z

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:26:55PM +0100, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:01:41 -0800, Greg KH a ?crit?:
>
> > If you, or your company is relying on closed source kernel modules, your
> > days are numbered. And what are you going to do, and how are you going
> > to explain things to your bosses and your customers, if possibly,
> > something like this patch were to be accepted?
> >
> Why not make a crappy GPL driver that just export again
> the symbols ?
>
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

Because that's just so obviously illegal that anyone caught doing that
would have no defense at all :)

thanks,

greg k-h