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

Wolfgang Denk
2002-05-25T21:21:05Z

In message <20020525140532.A11297@work.bitmover.com> you wrote:
>
> > Yes, of course it was a fork at a very early point of the develop-
> > ment. So what? Nobody denies that RTAI is based on the same core idea
> > as RT-Linux - that's why the RT-Linux patent _is_ an issue to RTAI.
>
> s/same core idea/same core code/
>
> Go search around, get the code you can still find on the net and start
> diffing. So not only do the RTAI people have an issue with the patent,
> it looks like they'd better be conforming to the GPL as well. Didn't

Ummm, please do not start spreading FUD. Instead of making such a
claim, please be specific, and show such "substantial parts of
RT/Linux" code!

> RTAI switch the copyright on "their" sourcebase to LGPL? So explain to
> me how you can take a GPLed source base, change it, and then change the
> license. Are you saying that 100% of that source base has been rewritten?

Did you notice that the RTAI core is now released under GPL?

Wolfgang Denk

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