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.