Re: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules...

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:03:52PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfree);
> > >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc);
> > > -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmalloc_to_page);
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_to_page);
> >
> > The authors of that code made it GPL. You have no right to change that. Its
> > exactly the same as someone taking all your code and making it binary only.
> 
> Dear Alan,
> 
> You know how much I respect you and your words so I don't need to write
> long a apologetic introduction if I wish to correct your statement.
> 
> Namely, you are saying that Andrea changed some code from being GPL to
> non-GPL. That is so obviously not true that I am even surprized that I
> need to point this out explicitly (especially to you; as Jesus said to

200% agreed. thanks for making the facts clear,

Andrea