Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 May 2002 08:21:42 -0600 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] |
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On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 04:09:46PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 26 May 2002 yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > That interpretation is not just false, it is silly. > > Then why don't you specify in the license what "use of the Patented > Process" means? > > bye, Roman
It means just what it says.
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