Subject: Re: Help porting wireless InProComm IPN 2220 driver to 2.6
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
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To: daniel.blueman@gmail.com
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Runar Ingebrigtsen <runar@mopo.no>, Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
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> This depends if the module uses any symbols exported from the kernel
> with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), and clearly the module license - 'strings'
> should be enough do check this is you don't have a MIPS platform to
> hand.

actually it doesn't.

For one, there is section 2 of the GPL which clearly forbids this
For another, EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL presence does NOT mean that it's ok to
use EXPORT_SYMBOL symbols without any license/copyright considerations
at all. The kernel is GPL licensed, without any exceptions.


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