Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Why are BSD-licensed LZ4 symbols GPL exported? | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:38:14 -0700 |
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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
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