Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Module licence and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Thu Jan 02 2003 - 23:28:31 EST


On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> Linus, your options:
> 1) Drop the patch and leave well enough alone.
> 2) Just keep the module licence taint check.
> 3) Say OK to the whole thing (once I've tested it against latest bk).

Hmm.. Can you make the "module_is_gpl()" thing a load-time check, and
instead of carrying the license string along at run-time, you just carry
the "I'm GPL-ok'd" bit along.

                Linus

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