Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:38:45 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: GPL and Linux kernel related question... |
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Hi!
> > when opening linux/drivers/mtd/nftl.c, I read : > > /* > > LEGAL NOTE: The NFTL format is patented by M-Systems. They have > > granted a licence for its use with their DiskOnChip products: > > > I thought that all the sources were submitted to GPL... I may be wrong > > could anyone explain me that ? Thanks in advance. > > The code is under GPL. Sorry, I should have made that more explicit. I'll > submit a patch to Linus to correct that. > > The licence referred to in that passage is a licence to use the algorithms > involved in reading/writing the NFTL format, which are patented in some > parts of the world. The owner of the patent has granted a licence to > use
It would be nice to explicitly list parts of world where patent applies. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
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