Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Licensing conflict with OpenAFS kernel module

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26 Apr 2006, at 17:29, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> > Those symbols are used by some extremely primitive and ubiquitous 
> > kernel macros (e.g., local_irq_enable(), local_irq_restore(), 
> > pagetable macros, page_to_phys(), ...).
> > I think the obvious course of action is to make those two 
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL() and add a comment to explain why. There's not exactly 
> > a lot of GPL'ed goodness hidden behind them!
> Agreed, and in general, my suspicion is that for upstream merge, we 
> have to make sure that we're not changing the license constraints of 
> any existing EXPORT_SYMBOL().
The whole EXPORT_SYMBOL thing is pretty insane anyway. Given that the 
whole kernel is GPL, the concept of non-GPL hooks is a legal nonsense 
(or the GPL itself is a legal nonsense).
 -- Keir


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