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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] userns: Allow init_user_ns to be used from non-gpl modules
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 11:58:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2iksocq.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464004808-21214-1-git-send-email-n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com> (Nikolay Borisov's message of "Mon, 23 May 2016 15:00:08 +0300")

Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> This patch changes the export attributes of the init_user_ns from
> GPL-only to any modules. This needed so that non-gpl modules, such as
> ZFS, utilize functions like i_(uid|gid)_(read|write).

It is my belief that linux kernel modules are of necessity derivatives
of the linux kernel and as such need to be covered under the GPLv2 or a
compatible license.

As such I will not accept any patches whose purpose is to facilitate a
different understanding of the license of the linux kernel.

Eric

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-23 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-23 12:00 Nikolay Borisov
2016-05-23 15:12 ` Serge Hallyn
2016-05-23 16:58 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]

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