saying that existing stuff will not change doesn't answer the problem
about licences that may have source avilable (tainting) but may not. if
you assume either way you will cause a bunch of problems.
David Lang
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, John Alvord wrote:
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:46:18 -0700
> From: John Alvord <jalvo@mbay.net>
> To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: MODULE_LICENSE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
>
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:38:36 -0700 (PDT), David Lang
> <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> wrote:
>
> >so what will the export_symbol_gpl stuff do with the BSD license? it may
> >or may not have source avilable so is it allowed to use the exported
> >symbols or not?
> >
> >for the tainting module process there is the same problem.
> >
> >knowing the license the code was released under does not tell you if the
> >source is available or not.
> Linus said that all existing entry points would remain untagged. Thus
> existing modules would not be affected.
>
> john
>
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