Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753839Ab2HCOLM (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2012 10:11:12 -0400 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]:8815 "EHLO cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752797Ab2HCOLK (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2012 10:11:10 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=Dp/UCRD+ c=1 sm=0 a=YPDeGStqRoQnMAluW+pq4Q==:17 a=65KWcu232dMA:10 a=sgO5gNtQRqEA:10 a=wkBGhNO-IO0A:10 a=05ChyHeVI94A:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=2D1OvHveRNJ-jve2AggA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=YPDeGStqRoQnMAluW+pq4Q==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 50.89.247.146 Message-ID: <501BDBEE.60305@cfl.rr.com> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:10:54 -0400 From: Mark Hounschell Reply-To: dmarkh@cfl.rr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Chris Friesen , linux-kernel Subject: Re: MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")?? References: <50199E91.5040308@cfl.rr.com> <20120801224342.5b90747f@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <501A704E.2000301@cfl.rr.com> <501B5D51.5030307@genband.com> <501BBE45.8060309@cfl.rr.com> <20120803142923.311c70b6@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120803142923.311c70b6@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 879 Lines: 24 On 08/03/2012 09:29 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >> assumption that that actually meant they were NOT using GPL symbols. > > All symbols in the Linux kernel are to GPL code and all linking dynamic > or otherwise is subject to the GPL licence. That is you need to be able > to show anything non-free linked with it such as a kernel module is not a > derivative work. Why then is there EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL and EXPORT_SYMBOL? As long as you have them both, one can and will, assume that what you say above is not the intent. Again, our Linux kernel drivers are and always were GPL and at least partly so because of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. Mark -- 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/