Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

[Andrew Morton]

Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm writing a module under a proprietary license.

You shouldn't, although many people do.  It's a derived work and hence the
GPL is applicable.  The only exception we make is for code which was
written for other operating systems and was then ported to Linux.  Because
it is inappropriate to consider such code a derived work.
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