Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932231Ab3GBIDj (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jul 2013 04:03:39 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com ([209.85.212.182]:55967 "EHLO mail-wi0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751442Ab3GBIDe convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jul 2013 04:03:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130701213859.GC23539@pd.tnic> References: <87bo6m2yok.fsf@nemi.mork.no> <20130701213859.GC23539@pd.tnic> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 09:57:08 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Wrapping EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL symbols and re-exporting the wrappers with EXPORT_SYMBOL From: richard -rw- weinberger To: Borislav Petkov Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Mork?= , LKML , Rusty Russell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1053 Lines: 26 On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 03:32:27PM +0200, Bj?rn Mork wrote: >> I just got a new wireless router and stumbled across an odd set of >> out-of-tree modules, where two GPL licensed modules were used by a third >> proprietary licensed one. >> >> The nice router vendor sent me the GPL'd source code, and as expected >> the GPL modules are little more than wrappers working around the >> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL restrictions. Here's a complete example of one of >> them: > > I'm wondering if we could fail building modules which do EXPORT_SYMBOL. Then vendors will do a s/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL/EXPORT_SYMBOL/g on the kernel. Recently I've identified such a case. Bj?rn, please post this on legal@lists.gpl-violations.org too. -- Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/