From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750746AbWDTHAt (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:00:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750747AbWDTHAt (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:00:49 -0400 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.184]:54000 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750746AbWDTHAt (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:00:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <963E9E15184E2648A8BBE83CF91F5FAF5154F6@titanium.secgo.net> References: <963E9E15184E2648A8BBE83CF91F5FAF5154F6@titanium.secgo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Cc: James Morris , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: searching exported symbols from modules Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:00:08 -0400 To: Antti Halonen X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Apr 20, 2006, at 02:12:09, Antti Halonen wrote: >>> This is commercial module and will not be merged into mainline. >> >> Is it GPL or compatible? > > Nope, MODULE_LICENSE("Proprietary"). This makes me wonder why the hell you think you'll get help from this (open-source) list. A large number of people on this list (including copyright-holders) consider what you are doing blatantly illegal, although nobody has yet gone to court over it. Please reconsider your decision and either opensource your code or find a way to do it in userspace. For example, it is quite easy to write a low-latency USB device driver completely in userspace with only standard kernel drivers. Cheers, Kyle Moffett