From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DC1BC07E97 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2021 15:21:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413636192E for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2021 15:21:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229924AbhGCPYR (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jul 2021 11:24:17 -0400 Received: from jabberwock.ucw.cz ([46.255.230.98]:39122 "EHLO jabberwock.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229562AbhGCPYL (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jul 2021 11:24:11 -0400 Received: by jabberwock.ucw.cz (Postfix, from userid 1017) id 782861C0B79; Sat, 3 Jul 2021 17:21:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2021 17:21:33 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Prabhakar Mahadev Lad Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski , Sergei Shtylyov , Philipp Zabel , Jiri Kosina , Mark Brown , "linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org" , Pavel Machek , Geert Uytterhoeven , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Prabhakar Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] memory: renesas-rpc-if: Export symbols as GPL Message-ID: <20210703152133.GA3004@amd> References: <20201126191146.8753-1-prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> <20201126191146.8753-6-prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> <20201128114145.GE4761@kozik-lap> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 07:11:46PM +0000, Lad Prabhakar wrote: > > > Renesas RPC-IF driver is licensed under GPL2.0, to be in sync export = the > > > symbols as GPL. > >=20 > > It's not a valid reason to export them as GPL. Entire Linux source code > > is licensed as GPL-2.0, so are you going to change all EXPORT_SYMBOL to > > GPL? > >=20 > Agreed not a valid case. That clears my understanding wrt GPL exports =F0= =9F=98=8A=20 Actually, you have just acquired wrong understanding of GPL exports. We normally export everything as _GPL unless there is very very very good reason not to do so. (The reason EXPORT_SYMBOL even exists are very obscure usecases of modules ported from non-free operating systems). Best regards, Pavel --=20 http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAmDggH0ACgkQMOfwapXb+vIH7gCeNMaIHxMthiCDl44FxLuT0mj/ C4oAn34uyHpIcHWzjY4zofQgs3Vu7Ncs =KTFS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK--