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    SubjectRe: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)]
    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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