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 10:45:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 10:45:48 -0400 Received: from hq.fsmlabs.com ([209.155.42.197]:8976 "EHLO hq.fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 10:45:48 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 08:42:37 -0600 From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com To: Alexander Viro Cc: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] Message-ID: <20020526084237.A19220@hq.fsmlabs.com> In-Reply-To: <20020525211328.B20253@work.bitmover.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 03:30:46AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > Now comes GPL advocate and says that the only reason why $FOO would > get in trouble here was (obviously) that he wanted to make money and > didn't want to share. Which is demonstrably false. I have no trouble with other non-commercial licenses - in fact we have donated a bunch of them to universities. We use GPL for the same reason you do. What I do have trouble with is arguments like: "I am a 100% GPL advocate and my only thought is the greater good of all human kind and the glory of Free Software. However, in order to advance Free Software, it is my sad duty to attach non-GPL proprietary code to your code released under GPL and to derived versions. Of course, I may reluctantly take money for doing this work, but it's not the money that counts, it is my pure motivation - according to me. " I have heard literally thousands of such arguments in the last 4 years. -- --------------------------------------------------------- Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com