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

Larry McVoy
2002-05-26T03:33:37Z

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 03:46:22AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.

Sorry Alan, but they asked for it. All day long they have been saying
stuff that isn't true. "The RTAI core is now released under the GPL"
and then you go look and it says LGPL. And the claims that they respect
the GPL in the parts that came from RTL is crap, go look at the copyrights
they put on the files, files they didn't create, and it says LGPL, not GPL.

Go read the code and then see what you think. It's blatent. You either
haven't read the code or I just don't understand your position. It's
exactly like someone took a GPLed device driver, enhanced it, and then
decided that they could put their different and incompatible license on it.

Don't take my word for it, go read the code.
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