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 10:25:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 10:25:01 -0400 Received: from hq.fsmlabs.com ([209.155.42.197]:1296 "EHLO hq.fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 10:25:00 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 08:21:42 -0600 From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com To: Roman Zippel Cc: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com, David Woodhouse , 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: <20020526082142.C18843@hq.fsmlabs.com> In-Reply-To: <20020526072637.A18692@hq.fsmlabs.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 04:09:46PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 26 May 2002 yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote: > > > > 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. > > Then why don't you specify in the license what "use of the Patented > Process" means? > > bye, Roman It means just what it says. -- --------------------------------------------------------- Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com