Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:28:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:28:01 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:31492 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:27:50 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules... To: andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:43:10 +0100 (BST) Cc: arjanv@redhat.com (Arjan van de Ven), hugh@veritas.com (Hugh Dickins), mingo@redhat.com (Ingo Molnar), stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com (Stelian Pop), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020403182118.A10959@dualathlon.random> from "Andrea Arcangeli" at Apr 03, 2002 06:21:18 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfree); > EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc); > -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmalloc_to_page); > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_to_page); The authors of that code made it GPL. You have no right to change that. Its exactly the same as someone taking all your code and making it binary only. You are - subverting a digital rights management system [5 years jail in the USA] - breaking a license but worse than that you are ignoring the basic moral rights of the authors of that code. Alan - 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/