From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Steve Longerbeam <stevel@mvista.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: new special filesystem for consideration in 2.6/2.7
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 19:06:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <404A919C.3070501@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4048CE25.8010705@mvista.com>
Steve Longerbeam wrote:
>
>
> 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.
A statement in legal terms should be in the patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-07 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-03 18:57 new special filesystem for consideration in 2.6/2.7 Steve Longerbeam
2004-03-05 18:09 ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-03-05 18:42 ` Dave Jones
2004-03-05 18:59 ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-03-07 3:06 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2004-03-18 19:28 ` Tim Bird
2004-03-05 22:09 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-08 17:57 ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-03-08 22:35 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-07 9:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-07 10:10 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-03-08 18:42 ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-03-11 12:34 ` Adrian Bunk
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2004-03-05 18:53 Steve Kenton
2004-03-07 3:07 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-08 0:07 Stephen M. Kenton
2004-03-08 18:37 ` Steve Longerbeam
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