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

[Alan Cox]

> adding export symbol here and there it's the same thing you did in the
> redhat kernel and in your tux patches here:

Nothing to do with me. I suspect Ingo and DaveM both discussed it however.

> vmalloc_to_page. Now if you claim that that's not legal, then I claim
> all binary only drivers out there are completly illegal, because they

That is a possible situation. No lawyer I've talked to is prepared to give
a definitive answer on the question of whether it is a derivative work. In
the UK case it recently got even more complex because a judge ruled that
loading a program into memory is clearly an act of copying.

Alan