Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 01:43:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 01:43:30 -0500 Received: from khms.westfalen.de ([62.153.201.243]:28547 "EHLO khms.westfalen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 01:43:25 -0500 Date: 04 Apr 2002 08:26:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <8MC61VRHw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules... X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh8 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) wrote on 03.04.02 in : > > 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. Frankly, I believe that it is both illegal (by the GPL) and morally bankrupt to add these "GPL only" symbols to the kernel *unless* you can get agreement for them fro *all* kernel copyright holders. Which I predict you won't get. That is, except when you handle the "_GPL" as a meaningless adornment. MfG Kai - 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/