Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 May 2002 11:29:51 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] |
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Around and around we go - I'm seeing why Victor is sick of this. A few words of advice and then I hope we're done with this thread because I don't know what else can be said which hasn't been said before.
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 02:00:42PM -0400, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > What is "use of the method"?
Ask a lawyer.
> "Do I need to purchase a license from FSMLabs if I write an RTAI > rt applications?"
Ask a lawyer.
> What is the "user mode" bit? Does your statement apply to the RTAI hard-rt > user-space applications which have been described earlier on this list?
Ask a lawyer.
> > Similarly, I doubt > > as one can write a non-GPL module for gcc, run it under NetBSD as a BSD > > kernel module and claim benefit of the BSD License to close it. > > I don't think that such a comparison can be applied.
If you want to know for sure, hire a lawyer.
> So too should your clients be very worried as to the code you are selling > them. Any one of the current RTAI developers can now sue you and your > clients for code theft.
Sounds like you need a lawyer.
> RTAI developers may have mislabeled some licenses, but they sure as hell > don't sell closed-source versions of the resulting code.
Snort. "may have mislabeled". Snort.
> As I was telling Larry earlier. The software industry as we know it is an > endangered species.
Tell that to Microsoft, watch them laugh.
> BTW, you still haven't answered my questions.
I read your whole posting carefully, a couple of times. You're basically asking for free legal advice from a party whom with you compete, may possibly sue, and/or may be sued by. Do you seriously expect answers or are you just posturing? Rhetorical question, please don't answer it. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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