Re: Why are BSD-licensed LZ4 symbols GPL exported?
From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Aug 20 2013 - 18:07:15 EST
On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 14:46 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Because your
Sorry, not your's but Matthew's.
I do think the MODULE_LICENSE should be "Dual BSD/GPL"
instead of merely "GPL" if for no other reason than
politeness to the original developer and the
license at the top of the files.
* LZ4 - Fast LZ compression algorithm
* Copyright (C) 2011-2012, Yann Collet.
* BSD 2-Clause License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)
---
lib/lz4/lz4_compress.c | 2 +-
lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c | 2 +-
lib/lz4/lz4hc_compress.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/lz4/lz4_compress.c b/lib/lz4/lz4_compress.c
index fd94058..a4001ee 100644
--- a/lib/lz4/lz4_compress.c
+++ b/lib/lz4/lz4_compress.c
@@ -439,5 +439,5 @@ exit:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lz4_compress);
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("LZ4 compressor");
diff --git a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c b/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
index d3414ea..c45e685 100644
--- a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
+++ b/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
@@ -321,6 +321,6 @@ exit_0:
#ifndef STATIC
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lz4_decompress_unknownoutputsize);
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("LZ4 Decompressor");
#endif
diff --git a/lib/lz4/lz4hc_compress.c b/lib/lz4/lz4hc_compress.c
index eb1a74f..59f26e6 100644
--- a/lib/lz4/lz4hc_compress.c
+++ b/lib/lz4/lz4hc_compress.c
@@ -535,5 +535,5 @@ exit:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lz4hc_compress);
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("LZ4HC compressor");
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