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

Daniel Jacobowitz (dan@debian.org)
Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:28:06 -0500

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:33:18PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > allow other people to use and modify it. You can't have it both ways --
> > there's no such thing as 'GPL but with a few extra restrictions I've added to
> > the code that everyone's contributed to'.
>
> Nor is there "GPL with a few things ignored".

Sure there is. I don't think the kernel's under one, though. They're
all over the place: For instance, the libgcc license is "GPL except
anything can use it if compiled with GCC". Various SSL-using programs
are distributed under "GPL but you can link it to OpenSSL anyway".

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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