From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MODULE_LICENSE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
Date: 19 Oct 2001 09:16:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8B8fdgcmw-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8658.1003375433@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
In-Reply-To: <8658.1003375433@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 18.10.01 in <8658.1003375433@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() allows for new interfaces to be marked as only
> available to modules with a GPL compatible license. This is
> independent of the kernel tainting, but obviously takes advantage of
> MODULE_LICENSE() strings.
Incidentally, an argument can be made that using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
actually renders your code incompatible with the GPL, insofar as it
violates the "additional restriction" clause. Which doesn't matter as long
as it's *only* your code (author can always do different things), but
*does* matter if you add *other* people's GPL code (such as the rest of
the kernel), because it's *their* GPL that you're breaking ...
MfG Kai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-19 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-18 3:23 MODULE_LICENSE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL Keith Owens
2001-10-18 4:03 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-19 7:16 ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
2001-10-19 8:26 ` Nils Philippsen
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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 16:43 Roy Murphy
2001-10-18 15:49 ` 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
2001-10-19 18:03 Roy Murphy
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