Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422709AbWHSBVf (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:21:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161055AbWHSBVe (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:21:34 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:55818 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161104AbWHSBVe (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:21:34 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:21:33 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Rusty Russell , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , virtualization , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Chris Wright Subject: Re: [PATCH] paravirt.h Message-ID: <20060819012133.GH7813@stusta.de> References: <1155202505.18420.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44DB7596.6010503@goop.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44DB7596.6010503@goop.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1164 Lines: 34 On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:06:14AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Rusty Russell wrote: > >+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(paravirt_ops); > > > This should probably be EXPORT_SYMBOL(), otherwise pretty much every > driver module will need to be GPL... These are Linux specific operations. Without an _GPL you are in the grey area where courts have to decide whether a module using this would be a derived work according to copyright law in $country_of_the_court and therefore has to be GPL. With the _GPL, everything is clear without any lawyers involved. > J cu Adrian -- Gentoo kernels are 42 times more popular than SUSE kernels among KLive users (a service by SUSE contractor Andrea Arcangeli that gathers data about kernels from many users worldwide). There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. Benjamin Disraeli - 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/