Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265563AbUFDChC (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 22:37:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265569AbUFDChC (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 22:37:02 -0400 Received: from mail8.fw-bc.sony.com ([160.33.98.75]:57819 "EHLO mail8.fw-bc.sony.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265563AbUFDCgx (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 22:36:53 -0400 Message-ID: <40BFE083.2030600@am.sony.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:37:55 -0700 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Wedgwood CC: linux kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.6 add qsort library function (UPDATED PATCH, symbol exported _GPL) References: <20040510050733.GA13889@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040510071552.GB30834@taniwha.stupidest.org> In-Reply-To: <20040510071552.GB30834@taniwha.stupidest.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 863 Lines: 27 Chris Wedgwood wrote: > [ This is an updated patch where the symbol is exported GPL only > recognized the GPL origin in the code used. Thanks for those > people who pointed this out. ] > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(qsort); I'm sorry, but I don't see the connection. Just because the code is GPL, why should a caller be constrained to be GPL? Is there something about the qsort API that makes a caller intrinsically a derivative work? ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Co-Chair CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer Sony Electronics E-mail: Tim.Bird@am.sony.com ============================= - 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/