From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
arjan@infradead.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
jtk@us.ibm.com, wtaber@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com,
markv@us.ibm.com, greghk@us.ibm.com,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
dipankar@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 22:27:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050109062731.GD1265@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1105215021.10519.50.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:46:34PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2005-01-08 at 18:32, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > What: call_rcu(), call_rcu_bh(), and synchronize_kernel() change from
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL() to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().
> > When: January 9, 2006
> > Files: kernel/rcupdate.c
> > Why: There are no known environments supporting RCU from which
> > one could reasonably expect to port a non-GPL kernel module
> > or driver to Linux.
>
> IBM might want to also note that anyone wanting to do so needs an IBM
> patent license for non GPL use ..
Last time I checked with IBM's lawyers, they were not interested in doing
so. Nonetheless, you are correct, non-GPL use of RCU would require a
conversation with IBM. And in fact the five relevant patents (one lapsed)
are called out in Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt. The four non-lapsed patents
are called out as "contributed under GPL", so I think that we are covered.
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-09 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-06 19:05 [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 19:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 20:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 20:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 20:35 ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-06 20:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 21:35 ` Greg KH
2005-01-06 19:14 ` Al Viro
2005-01-06 20:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 19:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-06 20:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 20:32 ` Al Viro
2005-01-06 21:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 21:24 ` Al Viro
2005-01-06 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-06 23:11 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-07 0:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07 0:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 7:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-06 23:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 0:29 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-07 0:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 3:30 ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-07 9:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-07 9:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 12:14 ` Antonio Vargas
2005-01-07 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-07 22:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 22:58 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-08 15:45 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-07 22:49 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-08 0:12 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-08 2:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 23:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-08 13:10 ` Al Viro
2005-01-07 1:34 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-07 3:17 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-07 8:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 23:56 ` [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation Greg KH
2005-01-07 0:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 0:32 ` Greg KH
2005-01-07 17:02 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-01-07 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07 18:11 ` Greg KH
2005-01-11 12:23 ` [PATCH] cpufreq 2.4 interface removal schedule [Was: Re: [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation] Dominik Brodowski
2005-01-12 18:41 ` Greg KH
2005-01-07 23:58 ` [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation Dominik Brodowski
2005-01-12 18:41 ` Greg KH
2005-01-08 18:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-08 21:46 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-08 23:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-09 6:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-09 6:27 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2005-01-07 2:02 ` [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 1:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 1:20 ` Al Viro
2005-01-13 2:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-13 7:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-13 17:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-13 17:07 ` Greg KH
2005-01-13 17:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-13 17:55 ` Greg KH
2005-01-13 18:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 7:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-07 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 15:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 15:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-07 15:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 15:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
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