Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 May 2002 19:17:08 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] |
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On 26 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 21:29, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > They can, because they provide the source to do so. > > Now does it have to be modular loaded, I suspect. > > The have every right to prevent people from using their stuff. > > There is no ruling standard body to force compliance. > > GPL is enforced by the author, owner, copyright holder. > > And the work distributed is an OS kernel which includes copyright > material from Linus, you, and thousands of others. The GPL additional > restrictions clause is pretty clear. The examples covered in the GPL > even explicitly discuss patents and requirements to distribute GPL > licensed code in the presence of a patent.
Excellent and nice explaination of the facts, as you can express it clear and exact without adding FUD :-)
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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