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    SubjectSiemens powermanagment patent? [was Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)]]
    Hi!

    > > What, so there are _no_ patents or other restrictions on any of then
    > > commercial embedded OS vendor products? I would imagine that you need
    > > to pay some sort of license fee to those vendors in order to use their
    > > code for products you sell.
    >
    > Thousands of them. Some of them like the Siemens power management patent
    > really hurt Linux too.

    Can you elaborate on this one?

    > I'd suggest Andrea does something else. Ask the Red Hat people for a formal
    > confirmation he can use it, just like IBM with RCU. I have this funny feeling
    > that he'll get an extremely positive response.

    Does he need to ask permission? Code is GPL-ed, "no additional
    restrictions" in GPL should shield him...
    Pavel

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