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

Alan Cox
2002-05-26T01:56:44Z

On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 21:29, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> They can, because they provide the source to do so.
> Now does it have to be modular loaded, I suspect.
> The have every right to prevent people from using their stuff.
> There is no ruling standard body to force compliance.
> GPL is enforced by the author, owner, copyright holder.

And the work distributed is an OS kernel which includes copyright
material from Linus, you, and thousands of others. The GPL additional
restrictions clause is pretty clear. The examples covered in the GPL
even explicitly discuss patents and requirements to distribute GPL
licensed code in the presence of a patent.