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From: Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@skelleftea.mail.telia.com>
To: Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>
Subject: [file interface] Re: Module Licensing?
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 05:40:18 +0100
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On Tuesday 30 October 2001 18:27, Timur Tabi wrote:
> TimO wrote:
> > Ugghh!  Don't confuse/equate MODULE_LICENSE with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_ONLY;
> > two different animals, two differnet goals.  See archives for more info.
>
> What happens is a module is distributed as a combination of open-source .c
> files and closed-source .o files.  That is, it's "mixed source" - part of
> the driver is open-source and part is closed-source.  What happens if the
> open-source version of the driver is the only code that uses GPL-only
> symbols. How is that handled?
>

This is the approach I would use:

Kernel module:
 Exports a standard interface like file or terminal (or several...)
 GPL all of this work.
 Make it useful for others too - and you may sell some additional HW.

Propritary code (user application):
 Uses standard file operations - like fopen, seek, ...
 The needed headers are LGPL and thus safe.

Comments?


/RogerL 
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Roger Larsson
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