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

Wolfgang Denk
2002-05-26T08:59:03Z

In message <20020526100539.M598@schwebel.de> Robert Schwebel wrote:
>
> recently and there are surely things left which have to be cleaned up. It
> is common agreement between the RTAI team that patches and schedulers are
> GPL, self-developed services are LGPL.

And to get this right: that fact that the "other" parts are LGPLed
does not mean that the RTAI team wants to keep it secret Cor put
restritctions on use - on contrary, we want to provide RTAI users
ADDITIONAL freedom - the freedom of the decision if they want to make
their application code GPLed or not.

Wolfgang Denk

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