From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 09:30:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 09:29:59 -0400 Received: from hq.fsmlabs.com ([209.155.42.197]:43535 "EHLO hq.fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 09:29:54 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 07:26:37 -0600 From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com To: David Woodhouse Cc: Larry McVoy , "Albert D. Cahalan" , Linus Torvalds , Wolfgang Denk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] Message-ID: <20020526072637.A18692@hq.fsmlabs.com> In-Reply-To: <20020525143333.A17889@work.bitmover.com> <200205252122.g4PLMh290935@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20020525143333.A17889@work.bitmover.com> <22471.1022407898@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Organization: FSM Labs Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:11:38AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > lm@bitmover.com said: > > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 05:22:43PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > To get a free patent license, EVERYTHING must be GPL. > > > Not just the real-time part! So that would be: > > > > > > 1. the RT microkernel (OK) > > > 2. the RT "app" (OK) > > > 3. Linux itself (OK) > > > 4. normal Linux apps (ouch!) > > > Whether that is true or not I don't know. But I do know that if all > > the stuff was GPLed, then you are safe no matter what, right? > > It's been asserted that the patent licence requires that _all_ userspace > apps running on the system by GPL'd. Yet there are many Free Software > applications in a standard Linux distribution that are under > GPL-incompatible licences. Apache, xinetd, etc... > > If that interpretation is true, it _would_ be a problem, and not just for > those trying to make money from it. That interpretation is not just false, it is silly. -- --------------------------------------------------------- Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com