Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 May 2002 16:27:24 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] |
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On Fri, 24 May 2002, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > > This matter remained unchanged until the FSF came out later and > declared publicly that the patent was violating the GPL.
Side note: they did this, apparently while Caldera was in the process of suing FSMlabs over the fact that they didn't want to pay for their OpenUnix usage... Hmm..
> I could have understood that this was indeed genuine, but here we > have Eben Moglen, a respected lawyer,
I would be a _lot_ happier with Moglen if he didn't have so many ties to the FSF, and being biased. These days you can apparently buy a "gpl compliance certification" from the FSF for $20k. Those kinds of ties do _not_ make me any happier about the FSF's status as an independent entity.
The RT part of an app under RTLinux has to be a kernel module anyway, and as I personally consider the GPL to be the only kind of module I care about, I think that is good.
Whatever non-RT tools used to visualize the RT data equally clearly aren't covered by _that_ particular patent, so I think the whole thing is a complete and utter red herring.
Linus
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