From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753078Ab2ARLwN (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:52:13 -0500 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:50216 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751591Ab2ARLwK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:52:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:53:24 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Robert Morell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sumit.semwal@linaro.org, airlied@linux.ie, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: Expanding the use of DMA buffers in 3.3 Message-ID: <20120118115324.634bc940@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1326845297-6233-1-git-send-email-rmorell@nvidia.com> References: <1326845297-6233-1-git-send-email-rmorell@nvidia.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > in mind. It would be unfortunate if restricting its use to only > GPL-licensed modules caused dma-buf adoption to be limited. You appear confused. I'll say this again is my lawyer advises me that for the benefit of any future enforcement actions I should remind people each time it comes up. For a Linux kernel containing any code I own the code is under the GNU public license v2 (in some cases or later), I have never given permission for that code to be used as part of a combined or derivative work which contains binary chunks. I have never said that modules are somehow magically outside the GPL and I am doubtful that in most cases a work containing binary modules for a Linux kernel is compatible with the licensing, although I accept there may be some cases that it is. Alan