From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Cc: chanho.min@lge.com,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why are BSD-licensed LZ4 symbols GPL exported?
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:11:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130820171148.GA17832@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <520D8C4C.7000704@gentoo.org>
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:19:56PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote:
> Why are the LZ4 symbols being GPL-exported when the LZ4 code is
> BSD-licensed and no substantial changes appear to have been made when it
> was merged?
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is intended an indication that using a symbol is
likely to result in you producing a derived work of the kernel, and the
kernel as a whole is under the GPL. It has nothing to do with additional
licenses that individual pieces of code may be available under.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-20 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-16 2:19 Why are BSD-licensed LZ4 symbols GPL exported? Richard Yao
2013-08-16 21:45 ` [PATCH] Correct the LZ4 license Richard Laager
2013-08-17 1:24 ` Kyungsik Lee
2013-08-20 17:11 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2013-08-20 17:38 ` Why are BSD-licensed LZ4 symbols GPL exported? Joe Perches
2013-08-20 21:37 ` Rob Landley
2013-08-20 21:46 ` Joe Perches
2013-08-20 22:07 ` Joe Perches
2013-08-20 22:33 ` Matthew Garrett
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