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From: Patrick Plattes <patrick@erdbeere.net>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] optimization for sys_semtimedop() (was: Opening Day for OpenSolaris)
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:26:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050618202624.GA11512@erdbeere.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42AFB94D.5010603@colorfullife.com>

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:14:53AM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
 
> Jim: From my understanding of the CDDL, only a file that "contains any 
> part of the Original Software" must be licensed under the CDDL, there 
> are no restrictions (except possibly patents, but I assume that even the 
> USPTO won't grant a patent on such a trivial idea) on using methods or 
> ideas from OpenSolaris in software that uses other licenses.
> Is that correct?

Hello,

Patch: The patch looks fine and compiles clean.

CDDL: What is the definition of 'part'? IMHO we need a debate how to
work with OpenSolaris ideas and the debate must me done by lawyers, 
not by kernel hacker.

Other: sem.c is hard to read - for me. Long functions and a lot of
gotos confusing me. is this only my problem or is it really hard to
understand?

cu
pp

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-18 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-14 17:23 [PATCH] optimization for sys_semtimedop() (was: Opening Day for OpenSolaris) Manfred Spraul
2005-06-15  5:14 ` Manfred Spraul
2005-06-18 20:26   ` Patrick Plattes [this message]
     [not found] <fa.gjr3si0.110j3e@ifi.uio.no>
2005-06-14 23:05 ` Robert Gadsdon

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