Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] | Date | Sun, 26 May 2002 11:11:38 +0100 |
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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
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