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

yodaiken
2002-05-26T14:25:02Z

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 04:09:46PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 26 May 2002 yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
>
> > > It's been asserted that the patent licence requires that _all_ userspace
> > > apps running on the system by GPL'd. Yet there are many Free Software
> > > applications in a standard Linux distribution that are under
> > > GPL-incompatible licences. Apache, xinetd, etc...
> > >
> > > If that interpretation is true, it _would_ be a problem, and not just for
> > > those trying to make money from it.
> >
> > That interpretation is not just false, it is silly.
>
> Then why don't you specify in the license what "use of the Patented
> Process" means?
>
> bye, Roman

It means just what it says.

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