From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@yahoo.com>,
Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:20:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A1E734.507@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47A13FBD.9080709@davidnewall.com>
David Newall wrote:
> This idea that some symbols may only be
> dynamically bound to GPL code is fallacy.
As I understand it, the point of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is not so much the
technical restriction (as you say, the module can lie or the user can
patch the kernel) but to indicate that the kernel developers consider
such interfaces to be internal to the kernel such that anything using it
would be highly likely to be a "derived work" of the kernel.
It's a hint to other developers rather than a prevention measure.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-31 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-29 21:22 ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux Pavel Roskin
2008-01-29 22:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-29 22:35 ` Giridhar Pemmasani
2008-01-29 23:21 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 0:25 ` Jon Masters
2008-01-29 22:45 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-29 23:56 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 3:24 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-30 5:07 ` Jon Masters
2008-01-30 5:26 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 6:03 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-30 6:12 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-29 22:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-29 23:04 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-29 23:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-29 23:25 ` Måns Rullgård
2008-01-30 0:35 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 0:46 ` Måns Rullgård
2008-01-30 1:44 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-01-30 7:38 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-01-30 8:45 ` Måns Rullgård
2008-01-30 21:00 ` David Schwartz
2008-01-29 23:44 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 0:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 2:02 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 11:24 ` Rusty Russell
2008-01-30 17:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 18:15 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-01-30 18:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 19:43 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-01-30 20:26 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-30 21:09 ` Adrian Bunk
[not found] ` <E1JKJvh-0006P8-Pi@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-02-01 5:08 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-06 10:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-06 11:11 ` Xavier Bestel
2008-02-06 11:38 ` David Schwartz
2008-02-06 15:10 ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-30 0:48 ` Giridhar Pemmasani
2008-01-30 17:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 18:26 ` Chris Friesen
2008-01-30 18:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 19:36 ` Lee Revell
2008-01-30 20:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-31 1:00 ` Michael Gerdau
2008-02-05 13:00 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-04 12:42 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-04 13:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-31 3:25 ` David Newall
2008-01-31 15:20 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2008-01-30 0:20 ` Jon Masters
2008-01-30 0:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-30 0:48 ` Jon Masters
2008-01-30 1:33 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 1:48 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 2:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-30 5:04 ` Jon Masters
2008-01-30 5:38 ` Zan Lynx
2008-01-30 7:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-01-30 8:54 ` Måns Rullgård
2008-01-30 20:50 ` David Schwartz
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