From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 19:46:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 19:46:14 -0400 Received: from bitmover.com ([192.132.92.2]:30932 "EHLO bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 19:46:10 -0400 Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 16:46:11 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Robert Schwebel Cc: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] Message-ID: <20020525164611.E18274@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Robert Schwebel , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020525143333.A17889@work.bitmover.com> <20020525215547.6912411972@denx.denx.de> <20020525150542.B17889@work.bitmover.com> <20020526013735.E598@schwebel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 01:37:35AM +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote: > You blame the RTAI developers for license violations without any proof. The RTAI current release COPYING says that it is LGPL, not GPL. OK, now go read the source. There is absolutely *zero* doubt in my mind that that code is derived from the RTLinux source tree. And I'd be happy to be called as an expert witness in court and walk the court through the diffs, there is no way anyone would disagree. And in spite of the RTAI guys changing lots of stuff, the source base in which they were working was GPLed. In order for them to change the license, they have to prove that it was not a derived work. Let's see, it's the trying to solve the same problem, it started with the same source base, you can still look at it and see that it was the same source base, and you think they'll wiggle out of a derived work restriction? Not a chance. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm