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 04:59:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 04:59:02 -0400 Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.82]:53988 "EHLO mailout05.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 04:59:01 -0400 To: Robert Schwebel Cc: Larry McVoy , 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 "Sun, 26 May 2002 10:05:39 +0200." <20020526100539.M598@schwebel.de> Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 10:58:44 +0200 Message-Id: <20020526085849.017E311972@denx.denx.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In message <20020526100539.M598@schwebel.de> Robert Schwebel wrote: > > recently and there are surely things left which have to be cleaned up. It > is common agreement between the RTAI team that patches and schedulers are > GPL, self-developed services are LGPL. And to get this right: that fact that the "other" parts are LGPLed does not mean that the RTAI team wants to keep it secret Cor put restritctions on use - on contrary, we want to provide RTAI users ADDITIONAL freedom - the freedom of the decision if they want to make their application code GPLed or not. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. -- Weisert