> Looking back at the KDB sources originally posted on oss.sgi.com I > did not see any restrictions on the use of KDB. How/why was that > restriction granted and by whom? Was SGI, the original copyright > owner of KDB, asked or even informed of that decision? I'm not > trying to be a lawyer here, but someone decided (perhaps wrongly) > that KDB should only be used by GPL modules.
At the time that I wrote that original KDB code at SGI, there was no intent to make it only usable by GPL modules. If anything, it was intended to be more in the BSD-style (anyone can use it any way they like with attribution) than the GPLv3-style (use it our way, or else). But then, EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL didn't exist then. And I think its existence is silliness on the part of several hard-core developers. scott lurndal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
