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 18:19:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 18:19:46 -0400 Received: from pD953A22B.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.83.162.43]:8322 "EHLO thomas.tec.autronix.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 18:19:45 -0400 Message-Id: <200205252219.g4PMJUX02248@thomas.tec.autronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: gleixner@autronix.de To: Larry McVoy , Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 00:19:28 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: Larry McVoy , "Albert D. Cahalan" , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rtai@rtai.org In-Reply-To: <20020525143333.A17889@work.bitmover.com> <20020525215547.6912411972@denx.denx.de> <20020525150542.B17889@work.bitmover.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday, 26. May 2002 00:05, Larry McVoy wrote: > > Hey, I said "I suspect". You can scream all you want but if the facts are > that the patent license allows 100% GPLed stuff for free, and you are > saying that it is all 100% GPLed, and yet you continue to complain, what > conclusion would you like people to draw? I'm pointing out the obvious > one. There's nothing obvious, if somebody complains about a questionable software patent and it's possible consequences for Linux. Your "suspection" is just impertinent. Check out the source from CVS and look for the missing critical chunk, before heating up the flamewar. -- Thomas ___________________________________ autronix automation GmbH http://www.autronix.de gleixner@autronix.de