From: "Roy Murphy" <murphy@panix.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
Roy Murphy <murphy@panix.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MODULE_LICENSE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:43:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3bcef893.4872.0@panix.com> (raw)
'Twas brillig when Arjan van de Ven scrobe:
>I think you're missing one thing: binary only modules are only allowed
>because of an exception license grant Linus made for functions that are
>marked EXPORT_SYMBOL(). EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() just says "not part of
>this exception grant"....
With all respect to Linus, I don't believe that module insertion is an
exclusive right granted to authors that is within Linus' legal power as holder
of the Copyright to the kernel to grant or to restrict. Does Microsoft have
a legal right to disallow any third-party drivers from
registering themselves with the OS? Does Linus?
next reply other threads:[~2001-10-18 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-18 16:43 Roy Murphy [this message]
2001-10-18 15:49 ` MODULE_LICENSE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL Arjan van de Ven
2001-10-18 18:42 ` Tim Bird
2001-10-19 15:38 ` Taral
2001-10-18 16:07 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2001-10-18 22:38 ` David Lang
2001-10-19 0:46 ` John Alvord
2001-10-18 23:57 ` David Lang
2001-10-19 12:44 ` Reid Hekman
2001-10-19 20:07 ` David Lang
2001-10-20 0:00 ` Reid Hekman
2001-10-20 6:38 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-21 15:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-21 15:47 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-19 18:03 Roy Murphy
2001-10-18 16:05 Roy Murphy
2001-10-18 15:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-10-19 15:30 ` Taral
2001-10-21 15:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-21 20:16 ` Taral
2001-10-19 17:06 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-18 3:23 Keith Owens
2001-10-18 4:03 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-19 7:16 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-10-19 8:26 ` Nils Philippsen
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