Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:13:04 -0600 | From | parker@citynetw ... | Subject | Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules |
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:41:00 +0100, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:56 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I'm writing a module under a proprietary license. I decided to use sysfs > > to do the configuration. Unfortunately, all sysfs exports are available > > to GPL modules only because they are exported by EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. > > I suggest you talk to a lawyer and review the general comments about > binary modules with him (http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/COPYING.modules > for example). You are writing an addition to linux from scratch, and it > is generally not considered OK to do that in binary form (I certainly do > not consider it OK).
So what about companies like ImageStream who write proprietary Linux network drivers for their hardware from scratch with no previous ports from another OS? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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