From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:19:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1133817575.11280.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512051826.06703.andrew@walrond.org>
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:26 +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> > On December 6th, 2005 the kernel developers en mass decide that binary
> > modules are legally fine and also essential for the progress of linux,
>
> Has anyone (influential) actually being toying with this idea? I hope not, but
> if they are, I'd like to know who to lobby...
http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e3c3374fbf7efe9487edc53cd10436ed641983aa
Remember that the only distinction between EXPORT_SYMBOL() and
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() is that the latter is a technological measure to
prevent abuse. The use of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() cannot actually impose any
additional restrictions over and above what the GPL requires of
EXPORT_SYMBOL() -- because any additional restrictions would themselves
violate the GPL.
Thus, the only point in the above-linked patch is to remove a technical
measure which prevents abuse. I feel very strongly that it should be
reverted.
--
dwmw2
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2005-12-05 10:52 Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-05 11:39 ` Dave Airlie
2005-12-05 13:55 ` Xavier Bestel
2005-12-08 14:27 ` Graham Murray
2005-12-05 12:18 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-12-05 13:07 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-05 18:44 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-12-05 19:47 ` Gene Heskett
2005-12-06 10:51 ` Luke-Jr
2005-12-06 12:29 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-12-07 0:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-12-06 17:03 ` Jon Masters
2005-12-06 1:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-12-05 14:31 ` Brian Gerst
2005-12-06 3:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-12-05 16:23 ` Brian Gerst
2005-12-06 18:42 ` David Woodhouse
2005-12-06 19:23 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-06 21:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-06 22:25 ` David Woodhouse
2005-12-06 22:49 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-06 23:03 ` David Woodhouse
2005-12-06 23:25 ` Andrew Grover
2005-12-07 0:56 ` David Woodhouse
2005-12-06 10:42 ` Sander
[not found] ` <f0cc38560512060307m2ccc6db8xd9180c2a1a926c5c@mail.gmail.com>
2005-12-06 11:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-06 1:43 ` Brian Gerst
2005-12-06 14:09 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-14 16:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-12-14 17:01 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-14 17:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-12-14 18:51 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-06 14:13 ` Rudolf Randal
2005-12-06 14:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-06 21:39 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2005-12-08 0:58 ` Kasper Sandberg
2005-12-08 2:24 ` Diego Calleja
2005-12-08 6:21 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-08 12:31 ` Diego Calleja
2005-12-08 12:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-08 13:01 ` Matan Peled
2005-12-08 16:55 ` Kasper Sandberg
2005-12-08 19:32 ` Horst von Brand
2005-12-08 21:10 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-09 6:12 ` Ben Greear
2005-12-07 7:02 ` Luke-Jr
2005-12-07 7:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-06 15:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-12-06 15:30 ` Florian Weimer
2005-12-06 15:49 ` Paweł Sikora
2005-12-06 19:00 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-12-06 19:11 ` Paweł Sikora
2005-12-06 19:34 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-12-06 20:29 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-06 23:25 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-12-06 19:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-06 19:37 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-06 19:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-06 19:55 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-06 20:25 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-06 21:55 ` Dave Airlie
2005-12-06 21:49 ` Reverse engineering (was Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario) Jeff Garzik
2005-12-06 20:54 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-12-06 23:13 ` Reverse engineering Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-12-06 23:19 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-06 22:21 ` Reverse engineering (was Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario) Lee Revell
2005-12-06 23:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-06 22:44 ` Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario Florian Weimer
2005-12-06 22:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-12-06 23:17 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-06 21:00 ` Francois Romieu
2005-12-08 1:04 ` Kasper Sandberg
[not found] ` <6f6293f10512060404x57cfb97dqaa469f2701cd2528@mail.gmail.com>
2005-12-06 12:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-06 15:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-12-06 9:07 ` Dirk Steuwer
2005-12-06 10:46 ` Sander
2005-12-06 16:41 ` Dirk Steuwer
2005-12-06 18:48 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-06 21:35 ` Grahame White
2005-12-07 8:09 ` Dirk Steuwer
2005-12-07 12:47 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-12-07 0:45 ` Horst von Brand
2005-12-07 14:17 ` Runs with Linux (tm) Benjamin LaHaise
2005-12-07 14:34 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-07 18:13 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-12-07 18:22 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-12-12 21:13 ` David Lang
2005-12-12 21:20 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-12-07 19:12 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-07 19:47 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-12-07 22:23 ` Jeffrey Hundstad
1970-01-02 3:28 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-07 22:29 ` Michael Poole
2005-12-08 8:08 ` Helge Hafting
2005-12-07 22:49 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-12-08 3:28 ` Magnus Damm
2005-12-08 2:07 ` Richard Knutsson
2005-12-08 2:38 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-12-08 4:15 ` Richard Knutsson
2005-12-08 8:50 ` free Driver proposal (tm) Dirk Steuwer
2005-12-08 9:42 ` Runs with Linux (tm) jerome lacoste
2005-12-08 11:04 ` Felix Oxley
2005-12-08 11:48 ` jerome lacoste
2005-12-08 12:23 ` Felix Oxley
2005-12-09 5:49 ` Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario Miles Bader
2005-12-09 9:49 ` Felix Oxley
2005-12-09 9:53 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-12-06 15:17 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-13 2:00 ` Rob Landley
2005-12-13 7:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-13 9:07 ` Rob Landley
2005-12-13 10:18 ` Felix Oxley
2005-12-07 15:06 ` Rik van Riel
2005-12-08 7:14 ` Andrew McGregor
2005-12-06 8:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-07 18:39 ` Rik van Riel
2005-12-07 18:44 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-12-07 18:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-07 19:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-12-07 20:22 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2005-12-07 20:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-07 20:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-12-07 21:02 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-07 21:30 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2005-12-07 21:38 ` David S. Miller
2005-12-07 21:47 ` Andrew Walrond
2005-12-07 21:53 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2005-12-12 17:52 ` Ric Wheeler
2005-12-13 8:17 ` Andrew Walrond
2005-12-07 20:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-12-07 20:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-07 20:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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2005-12-08 18:44 ` Dave Neuer
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2005-12-07 19:34 ` Lee Revell
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2005-12-06 12:26 ` Denis Vlasenko
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2005-12-06 18:51 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-06 20:26 ` Hannu Savolainen
2005-12-07 15:18 ` Avi Kivity
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[not found] ` <f0cc38560512071322m1d370589vd9f8a7684fa2ee1d@mail.gmail.com>
2005-12-08 12:19 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-12-06 17:23 ` Jon Masters
2005-12-05 17:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-05 17:29 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-12-05 22:52 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-12-06 6:28 ` Rob Landley
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2005-12-05 19:41 ` jmerkey
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[not found] ` <39068.10.10.10.28.1134245083.squirrel@linux1>
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