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

Alan Cox
2002-05-26T01:44:40Z

On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 22:23, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 11:20:48PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> And why is that? Could it be that RTAI is derived from RTL, and RTL is
> GPLed, and it was illegal for RTAI to ever have been anything but GPL?

Larry - I think you are out of order. If you are going to make serious
allegations like that then back them up with proof, and preferably on a
different mailing list.