On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 18:11 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:19:56PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote: > > Why are the LZ4 symbols being GPL-exported when the LZ4 code is > > BSD-licensed and no substantial changes appear to have been made when it > > was merged? > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is intended an indication that using a symbol is > likely to result in you producing a derived work of the kernel, and the > kernel as a whole is under the GPL. It has nothing to do with additional > licenses that individual pieces of code may be available under.
Maybe not. http://www.ifross.org/en/artikel/ongoing-dispute-over-value-exportsymbolgpl-function -- 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/
