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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: paulmck@us.ibm.com, arjanv@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:32:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040218153234.3956af3a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040218230055.A14889@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> Yes.  Andrew, please read the GPL, it's very clear about derived works.
> Then please tell me why you think gpfs is not a derived work.

I haven't seen the code.

> > But at the end of the day, if we decide to not export this symbol, we owe
> > Paul a good, solid reason, yes?
> 
> Yes.  We've traditionally not exported symbols unless we had an intree user,
> and especially not if it's for a module that's not GPL licensed.

That's certainly a good rule of thumb and we (and I) have used it before.

What is the reasoning behind it?
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-18 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-16 19:09 Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-17  2:31 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-17  7:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-17 12:40   ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18  0:19     ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 12:51       ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-18 14:00         ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 21:10           ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 15:06             ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 22:21               ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 22:51                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 23:00                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 16:21                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 23:32                     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-02-19 12:32                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 18:56                         ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-19 19:01                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 13:04                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20  3:17                             ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-20 21:46                               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-19  0:28                     ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 18:36                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 12:31                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19  9:11                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 18:32                           ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-19 18:38                             ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-19 19:16                             ` viro
2004-02-19 16:15                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 18:59                         ` Tim Bird
2004-02-20  1:27                       ` David Schwartz
2004-02-19  9:11                   ` David Weinehall
2004-02-19  8:58                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-03-04  5:51                       ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-19 10:29                   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-19  9:00                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 11:11                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-19 11:53                       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-18 18:04         ` Tim Bird
2004-02-19 20:56       ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 22:06         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2004-02-19 22:31           ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 16:42             ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20  2:06               ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 19:47                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20  5:07                   ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 12:02                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 20:37                       ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 14:01                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 23:00                           ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 16:17                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-21  3:19                               ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-21 19:00                               ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-22 23:39                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-25 21:04                                   ` [RFC] Distributed mmap API Daniel Phillips
2004-02-25 19:12                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-25 19:14                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-25 22:07                                     ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:07                                       ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-25 22:16                                         ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:46                                           ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-03  3:00                                       ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-03  3:15                                         ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-03 13:06                                           ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-04 18:55                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 21:17                         ` Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-20 22:16                           ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-18 12:12     ` Dominik Kubla
2004-02-17 22:22 ` David Weinehall

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