[uClinux-dev] insmod fails with Unknown symbol

[Gavin Lambert]

Quoth Robin Getz:
> > Someone asked about why when their module was marked Proprietary,
> > they couldn't use GPL symbols, a suggestion was to:
> >
> > > 3. create a GPL-licensed module that uses the GPL-only symbols and
> > > make your proprietary driver talk through that module.
> >
> > Although technically correct - I don't think it would meet the spirit
> > or the letter of the law/GPL.

I should probably add here that I haven't done this myself and have no intention of doing so -- I was just trying to enumerate all the possibilities.  Perhaps I got a little carried away :)

I do however still believe that some of the GPL-only markers are misplaced, such as the aforementioned SPI bus thing.  But it's perfectly within the rights of the authors of that code to do that if they want, and nobody should be circumventing it.