Andreas Oberritter writes:
> On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 03:46 +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
> > We have in the DVB subsystem most of the exported symbols as
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL itself, rather than EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. I think if this
> > needs to be changed, we would require a global change of all symbols to
> > the same to maintain consistency. If you require that change we can have
> > a change but i would think that the discussions be done with the
> > relevant copyright holders too, eventhough probably most of the authors
> > won't have any objection.
>
> I don't know if I ever contributed code to the DVB subsystem which is
> actually exported, but in case I did, then I am against changing the
> affected EXPORT_SYMBOLs.
>
> This would make it impossible to the use source code of most hardware
> vendors for embedded products because they usually have different
> licenses for their "run-on-every-embedded-platform-and-even-on-windows"
> drivers.
>
> Also I remember people telling on lkml that EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL was used
> for new kernel internal code only and I can't see how this applies to
> dvb-pll or any other part of the dvb subsystem which grew up outside the
> kernel tree.
AFAIK, the DVB core is also purposely using an LGPL license to allow
drivers with other licenses to at least use the DVB includes/calls.
Regards,
Ralph
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