From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261583AbVF2Qct (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:32:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262598AbVF2Qct (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:32:49 -0400 Received: from kalmia.hozed.org ([209.234.73.41]:53644 "EHLO kalmia.hozed.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261583AbVF2Qc1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:32:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:32:25 -0500 From: Troy Benjegerdes To: Greg KH Cc: Roland Dreier , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 05/16] IB uverbs: core implementation Message-ID: <20050629163225.GP4907@kalmia.hozed.org> References: <2005628163.lUk0bfpO8VsSXUh5@cisco.com> <2005628163.jfSiMqRcI78iLMJP@cisco.com> <20050629002709.GB17805@kroah.com> <20050629041321.GM4907@kalmia.hozed.org> <20050629161209.GA23781@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050629161209.GA23781@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:12:09AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:13:22PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:27:09PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 04:03:43PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > > > > +++ linux/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c 2005-06-28 15:20:04.363963991 -0700 > > > > @@ -0,0 +1,708 @@ > > > > +/* > > > > + * Copyright (c) 2005 Topspin Communications. All rights reserved. > > > > + * Copyright (c) 2005 Cisco Systems. All rights reserved. > > > > + * > > > > + * This software is available to you under a choice of one of two > > > > + * licenses. You may choose to be licensed under the terms of the GNU > > > > + * General Public License (GPL) Version 2, available from the file > > > > + * COPYING in the main directory of this source tree, or the > > > > + * OpenIB.org BSD license below: > > > > > > Ok, I've complained about this before, but due to the fact that you are > > > calling EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() only functions in this code, the ability for > > > it for someone to use the BSD license on it in the future, is pretty > > > much impossible, right? > > > > Only if someone tries to use it under a BSD license, strips off the GPL > > notices, and then builds it against *Linux*. > > Exactly, that's my point. It's pretty useless, and if you are going to > build this code for another OS, well, that's going to be a tough job :) > > > If linux-kernel is going to be that fascist about licensing, let's > > please clean up all the binary firmware blobs in header files first. > > I'm not being "fascist", I'm just saying it's pretty pointless to try to > dual license this code, that's all. Ahh.. I think the point of the dual-license is that there is a lot of non linux-specific Infiniband code that will (hopefully) be usefull on other platforms where a BSD license might be more usefull. If for some reason I decided I wanted to run MacOSX, I would at least want to be running the OpenIB infiniband stack, and not some proprietary module. Does anyone have some nice scripts to audit for useage of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL only functions? Maybe it's worth trying to clean up the code to clearly deliniate what depends on GPL functions and what doesn't.