Re: RTLinux patent

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

These are linux-specific kernel modules, I doubt that they're going to be
usable in debian/hurd or debian/bsd... 

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Raul Miller wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 02:48:08PM -0600, Barak Pearlmutter wrote:
> > My reading of this is that the RTlinux code cannot be integrated into
> > some other GPLed OS, eg the Hurd, without incurring patent license
> > fees.  To my mind this should be enough to consign it to non-free.
> 
> This is a good point.  [And one I overlooked.]
> 
> > It might be that the holders of the patent would permit its free use
> > in GPL-compatibly-licensed OSes other than Linux.  Perhaps someone
> > should ask them.
> 
> Absolutely.  I think we should ask them to allow the RTLinux code to be
> used with any GPLed OS.
> 
> I think this wierd phrasing is because of the binary module exception
> that is associated with Linux.  I think the right way of dealing with
> that is to allow for any GPLed OS plus GPLed Linux with its binary
> modules exception.
> 
> 

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