Re: new special filesystem for consideration in 2.6/2.7

[Steve Longerbeam <stevel@mvista.com>]

Dave Jones wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:09:09AM -0800, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
> > >An intro to PRAMFS along with a technical specification
> > >is at the SourceForge project web page at
> > >http://pramfs.sourceforge.net/. A patch for 2.6.3 has
> > >been released at the SF project site. 
> > 
> > 
> > A new patch for 2.6.4 is available, but it and the 2.6.3 patch
> > are each ~2900 lines, so I won't post here. But here's the intro:
>
>Without commenting on the code, the biggest thing holding back
>inclusion of this is likely the comment about there likely being
>patents held on parts of that code.
>
>		Dave
>

Dave, true MV has a patent pending, but it would only affect any future use
of the technology in a _non GPL_ operating system. Used in Linux or any
future GPL software, no patent licenses or royalties are involved at all.

I am not a lawyer, but I think I got that right :)

Steve