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

Anton Altaparmakov
2002-05-24T21:18:44Z

[Andrew Morton removed from CC: list as he doesn't want to be on it...]

Hi,

At 21:26 24/05/02, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>[ speaking for myself in this whole email, and CC'ed l-k ]
>
>On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:03:25AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > software patent on Tux... http://lwn.net/daily/

This patent was filed on August 22, 2001. If this is after the code came
into public existence this would constitute prior art and hence invalidate
the patent... Of course I have no idea when the code you pointed out was
released...

In either case, software patents are not allowed in the European Union
(yet), so we would just need to have an european kernel... (-;

Best regards,

Anton

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