From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LKM rootkits in 2.6.x
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:49:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4050D0DC.5000404@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403111930.i2BJU9oh004246@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:16:28 +0100, Christophe Saout said:
>
>
>>Ugh... this sounds ugly. This should be forbidden. I mean, what are
>>things like EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for if drivers are allowed to patch
>>whatever they want?
>
>
> If the binary blob knows enough about the innards to be able to do binary
> patching, it's a derived work and should be GPL.
Maybe!
Unless the offset of an unexported symbol relative to an exported one is
simply a "fact" which therefore can't be copyrighted.
This sort of thing would probably be unethical, but it might be legal.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-11 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-11 19:26 LKM rootkits in 2.6.x pg smith
2004-03-11 18:48 ` Dave Jones
2004-03-11 19:16 ` Christophe Saout
2004-03-11 19:30 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-11 20:42 ` Horst von Brand
2004-03-11 20:49 ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2004-03-11 19:31 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-11 19:49 ` Tomasz Torcz
2004-03-11 20:33 ` Horst von Brand
2004-03-11 20:35 ` Christophe Saout
2004-03-11 23:50 ` Dave Jones
2004-03-12 0:51 ` Dax Kelson
2004-03-12 0:57 ` Dave Jones
2004-03-14 0:44 ` Jirka Kosina
2004-03-11 19:39 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-11 19:57 ` Paul Rolland
2004-03-11 20:27 ` Horst von Brand
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