linux-kernel - Re: [zfs-devel] Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: allow kernel_fpu_{begin,end} to be used by non-GPL modules

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Date:   Thu, 23 May 2019 12:52:56 -0400
From:   Mason Loring Bliss <mason@...sses.org>
To:     Devel <zfs-devel@...t.zfsonlinux.org>
Cc:     Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Nicolai Stange <nstange@...e.de>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [zfs-devel] Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: allow kernel_fpu_{begin,end} to
 be used by non-GPL modules

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:09:59PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:

> No, please, we have gone over this before, we do not care at all about
> external kernel modules, ESPECIALLY ones that are not GPL compatible.

The best option here is for you to start caring. Makes the world a better
place.

Free software people doing what they can to attack other free software based
on relatively trivial idealogical differences isn't a good look, and it's bad
for the users.

-- 
Mason Loring Bliss  ((   If I have not seen as far as others, it is because
 mason@...sses.org   ))   giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abelson

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