From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 17:21:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 17:21:04 -0400 Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.81]:19348 "EHLO mailout03.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 17:21:02 -0400 To: Larry McVoy Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 May 2002 14:05:32 PDT." <20020525140532.A11297@work.bitmover.com> Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 23:20:48 +0200 Message-Id: <20020525212053.5B88A11972@denx.denx.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In message <20020525140532.A11297@work.bitmover.com> you wrote: > > > Yes, of course it was a fork at a very early point of the develop- > > ment. So what? Nobody denies that RTAI is based on the same core idea > > as RT-Linux - that's why the RT-Linux patent _is_ an issue to RTAI. > > s/same core idea/same core code/ > > Go search around, get the code you can still find on the net and start > diffing. So not only do the RTAI people have an issue with the patent, > it looks like they'd better be conforming to the GPL as well. Didn't Ummm, please do not start spreading FUD. Instead of making such a claim, please be specific, and show such "substantial parts of RT/Linux" code! > RTAI switch the copyright on "their" sourcebase to LGPL? So explain to > me how you can take a GPLed source base, change it, and then change the > license. Are you saying that 100% of that source base has been rewritten? Did you notice that the RTAI core is now released under GPL? Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun