Re: [PATCH] 2.6.6 add qsort library function (UPDATED PATCH, symbolexported _GPL)

[Tim Bird]

Chris Wedgwood wrote:

>  [ This is an updated patch where the symbol is exported GPL only
>    recognized the GPL origin in the code used.  Thanks for those
>    people who pointed this out. ]

> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(qsort);

I'm sorry, but I don't see the connection.  Just because the code
is GPL, why should a caller be constrained to be GPL?
Is there something about the qsort API that makes a caller
intrinsically a derivative work?

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Co-Chair
CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer
Sony Electronics
E-mail: Tim.Bird@xxxxxxxxxxx
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