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=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham 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 F0F2AC4360F for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:09:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C8A218B0 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:09:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1732189AbfB1QJV (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:09:21 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:53198 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726986AbfB1QJV (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:09:21 -0500 Received: from vmware.local.home (unknown [38.88.19.130]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 31DEF2184A; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:09:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:09:18 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt To: Greg KH Cc: Joel Fernandes , Masami Hiramatsu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , ast@kernel.org, atishp04@gmail.com, dancol@google.com, Dan Williams , Guenter Roeck , Jonathan Corbet , karim.yaghmour@opersys.com, Kees Cook , kernel-team@android.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org, Manoj Rao , Masahiro Yamada , paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , qais.yousef@arm.com, rdunlap@infradead.org, Shuah Khan , Thomas Gleixner , yhs@fb.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel Message-ID: <20190228110918.06ae3346@vmware.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20190228154513.GA12050@kroah.com> References: <20190227193748.132301-1-joel@joelfernandes.org> <20190228173444.54403795211d80ba540b61cb@kernel.org> <20190228150054.GB156098@google.com> <20190228153026.GG8481@kroah.com> <20190228153741.GA168373@google.com> <20190228154513.GA12050@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.15.1 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:45:13 +0100 Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:37:41AM -0500, Joel Fernandes wrote: > > In any case, it is not practical to provide headers for every kernel version on > > the system image and maintain them, it will take up too much space and has to > > be periodically packaged. Not to mention that there will be kernel versions > > that are booting Android that simply don't have anyone maintaining headers > > for. So the proposed solution is an easier path. > > I totally agree with this, and with your proposed patches, just wanting > to clear up some potential anti-GPL-FUD before it got spread any further :) > I would believe that the decision of saying it is "not allowed" is not about it being illegal, but more of a "we would then need to keep track of every GPL code and all the specific versions in every package that we ship such that we will have to provide it if someone were to ask for it", which would be required by the license. And that can be quite a burden. -- Steve