usage of _GPL

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Thu Jan 19 10:38:45 EST 2012


On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:36:07PM +0530, sumeet linux wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Can anyone clarify that when should I use _GPL and when not ?
> Is there a policy like for new code, it must be _GPL ?
> I see in kernel many places _GPL used like EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL( ), but many
> places only EXPORT_SYMBOL( ).

It is up to the author of the code what they wish to use.



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