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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: john.hubbard@gmail.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 08:03:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170308160352.GB16774@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170308092549.28982-2-jhubbard@nvidia.com>

Hi John,

all Linux kernel code is licenced under the GPLv2.0, and maybe only
be used by derived works if that work is available under a
GPL-compatible license.  the _GPL export are just a very strong hint
that it's almost impossible not to be derived work - using non-trivial
inline functions should be a just as strong hint so this is not going
to change anything.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-08 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-08  9:25 [PATCH 0/1] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status john.hubbard
2017-03-08  9:25 ` [PATCH] " john.hubbard
2017-03-08  9:50   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-03-08  9:53     ` John Hubbard
2017-03-08 16:03   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-03-08  9:48 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-03-08  9:59   ` John Hubbard
2017-03-08 10:12     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-03-08 10:52       ` John Hubbard

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