From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751128AbWDTRBS (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:01:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751156AbWDTRBS (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:01:18 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:58126 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751152AbWDTRA4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:00:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:00:55 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Antti Halonen Cc: Kyle Moffett , James Morris , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: searching exported symbols from modules Message-ID: <20060420170055.GV25047@stusta.de> References: <963E9E15184E2648A8BBE83CF91F5FAF43619E@titanium.secgo.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <963E9E15184E2648A8BBE83CF91F5FAF43619E@titanium.secgo.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:15:42AM +0300, Antti Halonen wrote: >... > > A large number of people on this list (including > > copyright-holders) consider what you are doing blatantly illegal, > > although nobody has yet gone to court over it. > > Um, which part is illegal? Are you saying that I cannot have a non-open > source kernel module? If I figured correctly, to violate GPL I should > compile GPL code into my module. > > It is a standalone module, not distributed with any custom kernel. >... A short discussion is e.g. at [1]. But AFAIK none of this has yet been brought to court. Things are even more funny considering that if you distribute your module in N countries, you can be sued in N different countries based on N different copyright laws... > Br, > Antti cu Adrian [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Licensing_terms -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed