Re: RTLinux patent

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.org>]

andreas.franzen@ewetel.net <andreas.franzen@ewetel.net>:

> the package rtlinux contains RTLinux. This is a real-time layer below the
> Linux kernel to provide a Linux operating system with real-time capabilities.
> 
> In the documentation of version 3.0 of RTLinux a patent is mentioned
> (US Patent No. 5,995,745). This patent covers the underlying principle of
> RTLinux.
> 
> Thus, the use of RTLinux has legal restrictions, and RTLinux must be removed
> from Debian.

If the patent were only valid in Liechtenstein, would it still have to
be removed?

If the patent were only valid in the USA, would it still have to be
removed?

Edmund