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lm@bitmover.com said: > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 05:22:43PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > To get a free patent license, EVERYTHING must be GPL. > > Not just the real-time part! So that would be: > > > > 1. the RT microkernel (OK) > > 2. the RT "app" (OK) > > 3. Linux itself (OK) > > 4. normal Linux apps (ouch!) > Whether that is true or not I don't know. But I do know that if all > the stuff was GPLed, then you are safe no matter what, right? It's been asserted that the patent licence requires that _all_ userspace apps running on the system by GPL'd. Yet there are many Free Software applications in a standard Linux distribution that are under GPL-incompatible licences. Apache, xinetd, etc... If that interpretation is true, it _would_ be a problem, and not just for those trying to make money from it. -- dwmw2 - 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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