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authorSam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>2006-06-09 21:53:55 +0200
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>2006-06-09 21:53:55 +0200
commitb817f6feff4a565b08f0e699a5790b4008b8f494 (patch)
treeb33ca0f4477c500380bc409cc272ab7f207ed77b /include/linux
parentbd5cbcedf446e2f37cf2a37f533a7e1d7dff9312 (diff)
kbuild: check license compatibility when building modules
Modules that uses GPL symbols can no longer be build with kbuild, the build will fail during the modpost step. When a GPL-incompatible module uses a EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE symbol then warn during modpost so author are actually notified. The actual license compatibility check is shared with the kernel to make sure it is in sync. Patch originally from: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> and Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/license.h14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/license.h b/include/linux/license.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..decdbf43cb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/license.h
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#ifndef __LICENSE_H
+#define __LICENSE_H
+
+static inline int license_is_gpl_compatible(const char *license)
+{
+ return (strcmp(license, "GPL") == 0
+ || strcmp(license, "GPL v2") == 0
+ || strcmp(license, "GPL and additional rights") == 0
+ || strcmp(license, "Dual BSD/GPL") == 0
+ || strcmp(license, "Dual MIT/GPL") == 0
+ || strcmp(license, "Dual MPL/GPL") == 0);
+}
+
+#endif