Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 May 2002 11:02:08 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] |
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On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 07:50:30PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > I do like it very much when all code I write is GPLed, but there are > situations where a there are good reasons for some application code > to remain closed.
Yeah, like you're trying to make money. Which is fine. But if that "application" needs to use the RT/Linux patent in order to work, it either has to buy a license or be GPLed.
It's somewhat two faced that the protesters here are arguing that everything has to be free in order for Linux to be used as a RT platform, but then come back and complain that the FSMlabs patent says everything has to be free if you don't want to pay.
Maybe Victor should have used a different model: if no money changes hands, then it's free to use the patent, if money changes hand, FSMlabs wants a cut. I think that was the intent, but as with all things, it's hard to state that clearly in a legal document. If that was the intent, I support it, I think it's perfectly reasonable. -- --- 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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