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From: John Alvord <jalvo@mbay.net>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MODULE_LICENSE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:46:18 -0700
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:38:36 -0700 (PDT), David Lang
<david.lang@digitalinsight.com> wrote:

>so what will the export_symbol_gpl stuff do with the BSD license? it may
>or may not have source avilable so is it allowed to use the exported
>symbols or not?
>
>for the tainting module process there is the same problem.
>
>knowing the license the code was released under does not tell you if the
>source is available or not.
Linus said that all existing entry points would remain untagged. Thus
existing modules would not be affected.

john
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