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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:13:25 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, crispin@wirex.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make LSM register functions GPLonly exports
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:07:41AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:35:05PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > These exports have the power to change the implementations of all
> > syscalls and I've seen people exploiting this "feature".
> > 
> > Make the exports GPLonly (which some LSM folks agreed to
> > when it was merged initially to avoid that).
> 
> I would really, really, really like to make this change.  Unfortunatly,
> one of the current copyright holders of this file does not agree with
> it.
> 
> Crispin, for the benifit of the lkml readers, can you explain why WireX
> does not want this change?

It's GPLed.  It doesn't matter who holds the copyright.

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