Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262886AbVBDJVE (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 04:21:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261752AbVBDJVE (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 04:21:04 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:59813 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262886AbVBDJUs (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 04:20:48 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 01:20:42 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Pavel Roskin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, mochel@digitalimplant.org Subject: Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules Message-Id: <20050204012042.6aedcf39.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 613 Lines: 13 Pavel Roskin wrote: > > I'm writing a module under a proprietary license. You shouldn't, although many people do. It's a derived work and hence the GPL is applicable. The only exception we make is for code which was written for other operating systems and was then ported to Linux. Because it is inappropriate to consider such code a derived work. - 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/