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

Robert Schwebel
2002-05-26T00:02:26Z

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 04:46:11PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> The RTAI current release COPYING says that it is LGPL, not GPL.

Wrong.

"we have chosen the LGPL as the distribution license."

The "distribution" is much, much more than the schedulers and the patches.
When in doubt please look at the header files of every single source file
to find out about it's specific license.

Robert
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