Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030753AbXBOT1j (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:27:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030756AbXBOT1j (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:27:39 -0500 Received: from vervifontaine.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:58477 "EHLO vervifontaine.sonycom.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030753AbXBOT1j (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:27:39 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:27:37 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: v j cc: Theodore Tso , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers In-Reply-To: <9b3a62ab0702151020k5bd0e4c9w763e1b01288ccc4f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <9b3a62ab0702142115m4ea7d2c0m6869eb64ef3ee14e@mail.gmail.com> <9b3a62ab0702142116n4069e16cl1bc8f546f41d935@mail.gmail.com> <20070215061149.GE15654@redhat.com> <9b3a62ab0702142227j19386132s870a0e745cfbb8d1@mail.gmail.com> <20070215165339.GB5285@thunk.org> <9b3a62ab0702151020k5bd0e4c9w763e1b01288ccc4f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1148 Lines: 30 On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, v j wrote: > So far I have heard nothing but, "if you don't contribute, screw you." > All this is fine. Just say so. Make it black and white. Make it > perfectly clear what is and isn't legal. If we can't load proprietary What's legal depends on the law. What's moral depends on... > modules, then so be it. It will help everybody if this is out in the > clear, instead of resorting to stupid half measures like > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. Personally, I see no real difference between EXPORT_SYMBOL and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. If you derive from GPL'ed code, your code is a derived work. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/