From: parker@citynetwireless.net
To: arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:13:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050217231304.GA18940@core.citynetwireless.net> (raw)
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:41:00 +0100, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:56 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm writing a module under a proprietary license. I decided to use sysfs
> > to do the configuration. Unfortunately, all sysfs exports are available
> > to GPL modules only because they are exported by EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.
>
> I suggest you talk to a lawyer and review the general comments about
> binary modules with him (http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/COPYING.modules
> for example). You are writing an addition to linux from scratch, and it
> is generally not considered OK to do that in binary form (I certainly do
> not consider it OK).
So what about companies like ImageStream who write proprietary Linux network
drivers for their hardware from scratch with no previous ports from another OS?
next reply other threads:[~2005-02-17 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-17 23:13 parker [this message]
2005-02-18 3:32 ` Chris Friesen
2005-02-18 13:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
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2005-02-03 12:30 Jonathan A. George
2005-02-04 15:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-03 4:08 Jonathan A. George
2005-02-03 5:07 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-02-02 22:56 Pavel Roskin
2005-02-02 23:07 ` Greg KH
2005-02-02 23:23 ` Patrick Mochel
2005-02-02 23:29 ` Greg KH
2005-02-03 0:07 ` Pavel Roskin
2005-02-03 0:30 ` Greg KH
2005-02-03 4:54 ` Zan Lynx
2005-02-03 5:07 ` Greg KH
2005-02-03 8:59 ` Helge Hafting
2005-02-03 15:12 ` Alan Cox
2005-02-03 17:26 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-02-03 13:47 ` linux-os
2005-02-04 16:05 ` David Woodhouse
2005-02-03 0:09 ` Joseph Pingenot
2005-02-03 1:13 ` Pavel Roskin
2005-02-03 2:50 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-02-03 3:17 ` Jon Masters
2005-02-06 7:24 ` Lee Revell
2005-02-07 16:05 ` Chris Friesen
2005-02-07 16:55 ` linux-os
2005-02-07 18:58 ` jerome lacoste
2005-02-07 19:35 ` linux-os
2005-02-07 16:55 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-02-08 1:40 ` Horst von Brand
2005-02-03 4:57 ` Greg KH
2005-02-03 8:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-03 21:00 ` Ben Greear
2005-02-04 9:20 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-04 9:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-15 1:41 ` Alan Cox
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