Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 11:12:15 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: john.hubbard@gmail.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL
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On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:59:33AM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/08/2017 01:48 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:25:48AM -0800, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote:
> > > From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Say, I'm 99% sure that this was just an oversight, so
> > > I'm sticking my neck out here and floating a patch to
> > > Put Things Back. I'm hoping that there is not some
> > > firm reason to GPL-protect the basic kref_get and
> > > kref_put routines, because when designing some
> > > recent new (open-source, yay!) device drivers, we relied
> > > on this being available, even for MIT-licensed code.
> > 
> > MIT-licensed code should be just fine with GPL symbols, just use the
> > correct MODULE_LICENSE() setting and all is good.
> 
> Actually, we're still using this license string:
> 
>    MODULE_LICENSE("MIT");
> 
> which I understand does *not* grant access to GPL symbols. So I guess we'd
> have to switch over to "MIT/GPL", if I understand correctly, in order to be
> all correct here.

You need to write this as:
	MODULE_LICENSE("Dual MIT/GPL");
for the linker to handle this properly as that is the string it is
looking for.

thanks,

greg k-h