Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:53:02 -0700 | From | Scott Lurndal <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/14] KDB: add more exports for supporting KDB modules |
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> 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
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