Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751772Ab3HTRL7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:11:59 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:38927 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751226Ab3HTRL6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:11:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:11:48 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Richard Yao Cc: chanho.min@lge.com, Kernel development list Subject: Re: Why are BSD-licensed LZ4 symbols GPL exported? Message-ID: <20130820171148.GA17832@srcf.ucam.org> References: <520D8C4C.7000704@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <520D8C4C.7000704@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 784 Lines: 17 On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:19:56PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote: > Why are the LZ4 symbols being GPL-exported when the LZ4 code is > BSD-licensed and no substantial changes appear to have been made when it > was merged? EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is intended an indication that using a symbol is likely to result in you producing a derived work of the kernel, and the kernel as a whole is under the GPL. It has nothing to do with additional licenses that individual pieces of code may be available under. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org -- 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/