From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: ksummit <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 14:58:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180916125840.GA1083@kunai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7500551.ylj9XQ2o2G@avalon>
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> The argument that any module is a derived work of the kernel (at the very
> least when the module has been developed specifically for the Linux kernel)
> still hasn't been disproved, so this is a grey area as well. The argument is
> certainly political, but I don't see why it wouldn't be legal as well.
>
> I do agree that EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is useful though, as it makes the intent of
> the developer clear. As a mean of telling whether an interface is internal or
> not, however, I hae my doubts.
I fully agree.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-16 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-13 19:43 Dan Williams
2018-09-13 20:05 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-13 20:14 ` Greg KH
2018-09-13 21:04 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-14 6:32 ` Dave Airlie
2018-09-14 7:08 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-16 12:58 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2018-09-16 22:15 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-17 10:22 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-18 13:35 ` Steven Rostedt
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