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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...>
To: David Newall <davidn@...>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>, Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@...>, Pavel Roskin <proski@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Jon Masters <jonathan@...>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...>, <rms@...>
Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux
Date: Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 11:20 am

David Newall wrote:

As I understand it, the point of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is not so much the 
technical restriction (as you say, the module can lie or the user can 
patch the kernel) but to indicate that the kernel developers consider 
such interfaces to be internal to the kernel such that anything using it 
would be highly likely to be a "derived work" of the kernel.

It's a hint to other developers rather than a prevention measure.

Chris
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ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 5:22 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jon Masters, (Tue Jan 29, 8:20 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 9:48 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jon Masters, (Wed Jan 30, 1:04 am)
RE: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, David Schwartz, (Wed Jan 30, 4:50 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Zan Lynx, (Wed Jan 30, 1:38 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Geert Uytterhoeven, (Wed Jan 30, 3:40 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Jan 29, 10:08 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Jan 29, 8:35 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jon Masters, (Tue Jan 29, 8:48 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 9:33 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Jan 29, 6:57 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Giridhar Pemmasani, (Tue Jan 29, 8:48 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 30, 1:54 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, David Newall, (Wed Jan 30, 11:25 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Chris Friesen, (Thu Jan 31, 11:20 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Chris Friesen, (Wed Jan 30, 2:26 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 30, 2:54 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Lee Revell, (Wed Jan 30, 3:36 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Alan Cox, (Mon Feb 4, 8:42 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Feb 4, 9:56 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 30, 4:28 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Michael Gerdau, (Wed Jan 30, 9:00 pm)
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Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Jan 29, 8:25 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 10:02 pm)
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Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Lennart Sorensen, (Wed Jan 30, 2:15 pm)
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Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Jan 29, 7:06 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Alan Cox, (Tue Jan 29, 6:45 pm)
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Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Andi Kleen, (Tue Jan 29, 11:24 pm)
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Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Giridhar Pemmasani, (Tue Jan 29, 6:35 pm)