From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@openss7.org>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@google.com>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] in-kernel sockets API
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:03:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060614120302.A24700@openss7.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44904C08.6020307@google.com>; from phillips@google.com on Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:48:56AM -0700
Daniel,
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> Speaking as a former member of a "grey market" binary module vendor that
> came in from the cold I can assure you that the distinction between EXPORT
> and EXPORT_GPL _is_ meaningful. That tainted flag makes it extremely
> difficult to do deals with mainstream Linux companies and there is always
> the fear that it will turn into a legal problem. The latter bit tends to
> make venture capitalists nervous.
>
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL and the Tainted flag have nothing to do with each other.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-14 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-12 23:56 [RFC/PATCH 1/2] in-kernel sockets API Sridhar Samudrala
2006-06-13 5:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-06-13 11:13 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-06-13 11:22 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 21:12 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-06-13 21:40 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 22:00 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-13 22:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-06-13 22:47 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 23:59 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14 0:31 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 0:53 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14 6:07 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 7:58 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14 9:28 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 10:43 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-14 10:54 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 10:36 ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-13 22:44 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 23:42 ` Ben Greear
2006-06-14 0:05 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14 0:18 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 0:29 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14 0:36 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 0:19 ` Ben Greear
2006-06-14 0:38 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 13:30 ` Harald Welte
2006-06-14 14:29 ` Erik Mouw
2006-06-14 15:26 ` Harald Welte
2006-06-14 17:48 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-06-14 18:03 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock [this message]
2006-06-14 20:52 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2006-06-13 14:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-13 16:27 ` Sridhar Samudrala
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