Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755542AbYA3Glh (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:41:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753206AbYA3Gl2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:41:28 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.184]:38294 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752383AbYA3Gl1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:41:27 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=brBVGfqu2mrfJqwf07bQu/V28TdMVIB0Na6Pya3YZjq4t272sBN4UsImS66LPziOvo/R1b4waHkkS3WGrfz6PTN/gMwfMSvqzny7ylQ2034xtOAJoyrzKUhPW+a/Ymw+kaFM1XPsphxaL60KE4SCWEI0dv3IAqgLr2GWTgek9rU= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:41:24 +0800 From: "CooperYuan Cooper" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: About closed-source module use GPL module function MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 591 Lines: 18 Hi all, Now I am porting a device driver to Linux, its source code is not opened. In this module, I use some interface functions exported from GPL module through EXPORT_SYMBOL macros. (not EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL), For example, register_sound_dsp() and so on. Do I violate GPL? How to solve it? Thanks a lot, any suggestion is appreciated. Cooper -- 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/