From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
To: pv-drivers@vmware.com
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Andy King <acking@vmware.com>,
        vm-crosstalk@vmware.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>,
        virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 04/10] VMCI: device driver implementaton.
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:45:39 -0700
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On Thursday, October 25, 2012 01:31:48 PM Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:16:00PM -0700, Andy King wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmci_device_get);
> > > 
> > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() for this, and all other exports?
> > 
> > We'd prefer to leave them as vanilla exports.  While we're committed
> > to open-sourcing everything, including our non-upstreamed drivers,
> > we don't really have a strong opinion regarding consuming our exports
> > in closed-source (general GPL issues aside).
> 
> You can't just say "general GPL issues aside".  Honestly, given your
> company's prior actions in regards to Linux kernel drivers and the
> licenses of them, I don't trust them at all.  To help gain that trust
> back, marking the exports in this manner will be a great improvement.
> 
> To insist otherwise is to only reinforce my doubts, and reduce my
> wanting to even review or accept this code at all.  Sorry about that.

Huh? What are the concerns exactly? I do not really see difference between
EXPORT_SYMBOL() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). The code either derivative of the
kernel or it is not and so it either falls under the kernel license or not.

>From out perspective we do not really care what other code might use VMCI,
all our Linux drivers, even if not all are upstream [yet], are GPL.

Thanks,
Dmitry

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