Subject: Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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> 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. 

As one of the copyright holders I make no such exception. Its either a
derived work in law or its not. In the former case obey the license or
remove every line of code derived from anything I wrote.

If it's not a derived work then fine. If you aren't sure ask your
lawyer.

[Sorry I'm sort of obliged to reply to this comment to prove I'm
defending my
 copyrights and not accepting various positions Linus and others may
claim
 exist. I believe others like the FSF whose code is used in the kernel
have 
 similar views]

Alan

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