Re: LKM rootkits in 2.6.x

[Timothy Miller]

Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:16:28 +0100, Christophe Saout said:
>
>
> > Ugh... this sounds ugly. This should be forbidden. I mean, what are
> > things like EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for if drivers are allowed to patch
> > whatever they want?
>
>
> If the binary blob knows enough about the innards to be able to do binary
> patching, it's a derived work and should be GPL.

Maybe!

Unless the offset of an unexported symbol relative to an exported one is 
simply a "fact" which therefore can't be copyrighted.

This sort of thing would probably be unethical, but it might be legal.

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