From: Steve Longerbeam <stevel@mvista.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: new special filesystem for consideration in 2.6/2.7
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:59:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4048CE25.8010705@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040305184203.GB26176@redhat.com>
Dave Jones wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:09:09AM -0800, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
> > >An intro to PRAMFS along with a technical specification
> > >is at the SourceForge project web page at
> > >http://pramfs.sourceforge.net/. A patch for 2.6.3 has
> > >been released at the SF project site.
> >
> >
> > A new patch for 2.6.4 is available, but it and the 2.6.3 patch
> > are each ~2900 lines, so I won't post here. But here's the intro:
>
>Without commenting on the code, the biggest thing holding back
>inclusion of this is likely the comment about there likely being
>patents held on parts of that code.
>
> Dave
>
Dave, true MV has a patent pending, but it would only affect any future use
of the technology in a _non GPL_ operating system. Used in Linux or any
future GPL software, no patent licenses or royalties are involved at all.
I am not a lawyer, but I think I got that right :)
Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-05 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-03 18:57 new special filesystem for consideration in 2.6/2.7 Steve Longerbeam
2004-03-05 18:09 ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-03-05 18:42 ` Dave Jones
2004-03-05 18:59 ` Steve Longerbeam [this message]
2004-03-07 3:06 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-18 19:28 ` Tim Bird
2004-03-05 22:09 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-08 17:57 ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-03-08 22:35 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-07 9:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-07 10:10 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-03-08 18:42 ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-03-11 12:34 ` Adrian Bunk
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-05 18:53 Steve Kenton
2004-03-07 3:07 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-08 0:07 Stephen M. Kenton
2004-03-08 18:37 ` Steve Longerbeam
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