Josh Boyer wrote: > It is not, in my opinion, about what is technically possible and what > isn't. The kernel is licensed under the GPL. This is a Linux kernel > only symbol. One would be hard pressed to claim they have a driver > that wasn't written for Linux that happens to need that symbol. As a > member of the Linux kernel community, I find it important to encourage > the contribution of code back to the kernel, and this is one way to > help that. This isn't BSD.
Fine, but this goes back to my original question -- if this is how the community feels, then why hasn't someone posted a patch that converts all EXPORT_SYMBOL into EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL? Either we allow non-GPL drivers, or we don't. If we don't, then we need to eliminate EXPORT_SYMBOL once and for all. Otherwise, the message is hypocritical. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer
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