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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: GPL-only symbols issue
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 21:25:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060509042500.GA4226@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <445F0B6F.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:12:15AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Sam,
> 
> would it seem reasonable a request to detect imports of GPL-only
> symbols by non-GPL modules also at build time rather than only at run
> time, and at least warn about such?

Ram has some tools that might catch this kind of thing.  He's posted his
scripts to lkml in the past, try looking in the archives.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-09  4:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-08  7:12 GPL-only symbols issue Jan Beulich
2006-05-08 20:23 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-05-09  4:25 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-05-09  5:57   ` Ram Pai
2006-05-09 13:11     ` Philip R. Auld
2006-05-09 17:31     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2006-05-09 17:31     ` [PATCH] Check for license compliance at build time Andreas Gruenbacher
2006-05-09 20:55       ` Ram Pai
2006-05-09 22:24         ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-06-17 21:06   ` GPL-only symbols issue Sam Ravnborg

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