On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I believe that the developers and maintainers of dma-buf have provided >> the needed signoff, both in person and in this thread. If there are any >> objections from that group, I'm happy to discuss any changes necessary to get >> this merged. > > You need the permission of the owners of all the dependant code that > forms the work. The rules and licence are quite clear, as I think are the > views of several of the rights holders on both the interpretation and > intent of the licensing of their code. > > Please go and discuss estoppel, wilful infringement and re-licensing with > your corporate attorneys. If you want to relicense components of the code > then please take the matter up with the corporate attorneys of the rights > holders concerned. Alan please stick with the facts. This isn't a relicense of anything. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL isn't a license its nothing like a license. Its a totally pointless thing, it should be EXPORT_SYMBOL_USERS_MIGHT_BE_DERIVED_CONSULT_YOUR_LAWYER, but it really should be EXPORT_SYMBOL, and really consult your lawyers anyways. Dave. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
