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SubjectRe: Why are BSD-licensed LZ4 symbols GPL exported?
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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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