From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.tuxedocomputers.com (mail.tuxedocomputers.com [157.90.84.7]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DD3B154456 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:34:32 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=157.90.84.7 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1731400477; cv=none; b=RECIWNSyN1dmAhTzr7GtznZooK1l8iLY4xVgj51fCiOyvWSsyTDM4oCAyQQe+NnTKJBr8bTkD0mT3V+YztWvb5fQPNqLwIjpIsQSOZsFABv4filOswZ3yEhtMXbzSW8ENkBIueU2exZQWaS+eZFgv8d49m+pRqOsl+TGk8MnMeA= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1731400477; c=relaxed/simple; bh=oHMfopyLGWcArsWyaVd1aOVGAT5C2IA/L6SRJPL8qbY=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=tu2SL8cKq7VC0raAF3tck3/BQI2YufrOnDyR7V55EW6CgZbTvkpeVFs13EpYXkaSR//09/3MWx3PXb/NgphrAK2KT8LTAGnvd1tlEAnMb/IIP9dyiVFKwquooYoyvVI3LGScufw1gj56APgCGdthW5+WP2yCkHLDMqqCXOe0Qg4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=tuxedocomputers.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=tuxedocomputers.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=tuxedocomputers.com header.i=@tuxedocomputers.com header.b=TAGLrXIB; arc=none smtp.client-ip=157.90.84.7 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=tuxedocomputers.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=tuxedocomputers.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=tuxedocomputers.com header.i=@tuxedocomputers.com header.b="TAGLrXIB" Received: from [192.168.42.96] (p5de457db.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.228.87.219]) (Authenticated sender: wse@tuxedocomputers.com) by mail.tuxedocomputers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3E6AA2FC0048; Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:34:29 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxedocomputers.com; s=default; t=1731400470; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=cz6EpwzNEW/FKSNKQEDaaTQwb1kSyYhG9Jguy8uvAe0=; b=TAGLrXIBa0ALBO4XLaBjELTuYqqW9jioidvg9QXtfco7Qk7TRm8Skpgatj9pxDQlHmxu8y tgkz+uzHkoxWmEb83TJ7C18cHusAyPs5p5Hpwxve1UsgVxPuc/RiKFusckPklQDowcm2cm ZM1IDFM8hkMNT+PYxPmwMvA1Vxztr4E= Authentication-Results: mail.tuxedocomputers.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=wse@tuxedocomputers.com smtp.mailfrom=wse@tuxedocomputers.com Message-ID: <1fcb3716-308f-49b8-b84f-2225aa2a1fb8@tuxedocomputers.com> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:34:29 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL with GPLv3 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Christoffer Sandberg References: <17276996-dcca-4ab5-a64f-0e76514c5dc7@tuxedocomputers.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Werner Sembach In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Am 12.11.24 um 06:00 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 07:40:25PM +0100, Werner Sembach wrote: >> Hi, >> >> asking at the source: Can EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL-exports be used with out of tree >> GPLv3 licensed modules? > No. The kernel as whole is licencsed as GPLv2, not GPLv2+. > Yes, but the documentation for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL only talks about "GPL-compatible" and external linking for EXPORT_SYMBOL-exports is even legal with proprietary code. So to my understanding, it comes down to what EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL means and not what's the license of the code behind it is. Kind Regards, Werner Sembach