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Message-ID: <20130313145302.GA23308@mail.lurndal.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:53:02 -0700
From: Scott Lurndal <scott@...ndal.org>
To: travis@....com
Cc: jason.wessel@...driver.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/14] KDB: add more exports for supporting KDB modules
> Looking back at the KDB sources originally posted on oss.sgi.com I
> did not see any restrictions on the use of KDB. How/why was that
> restriction granted and by whom? Was SGI, the original copyright
> owner of KDB, asked or even informed of that decision? I'm not
> trying to be a lawyer here, but someone decided (perhaps wrongly)
> that KDB should only be used by GPL modules.
At the time that I wrote that original KDB code at SGI, there was no
intent to make it only usable by GPL modules. If anything, it was intended
to be more in the BSD-style (anyone can use it any way they like with
attribution) than the GPLv3-style (use it our way, or else).
But then, EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL didn't exist then. And I think its existence
is silliness on the part of several hard-core developers.
scott lurndal
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