Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 May 2002 16:46:11 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] |
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On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 01:37:35AM +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote: > You blame the RTAI developers for license violations without any proof.
The RTAI current release COPYING says that it is LGPL, not GPL. OK, now go read the source. There is absolutely *zero* doubt in my mind that that code is derived from the RTLinux source tree. And I'd be happy to be called as an expert witness in court and walk the court through the diffs, there is no way anyone would disagree.
And in spite of the RTAI guys changing lots of stuff, the source base in which they were working was GPLed. In order for them to change the license, they have to prove that it was not a derived work. Let's see, it's the trying to solve the same problem, it started with the same source base, you can still look at it and see that it was the same source base, and you think they'll wiggle out of a derived work restriction? Not a chance. -- --- 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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