Re: RTLinux patent

To: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>
Cc: Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>, Barak Pearlmutter <bap@cs.unm.edu>, debian-legal@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: RTLinux patent
From: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 21:50:08 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.21.0010231332510.21419-100000@inconnu.isu.edu>; from galt@inconnu.isu.edu on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 01:34:55PM -0600
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 01:34:55PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
> 
> These are linux-specific kernel modules, I doubt that they're going to be
> usable in debian/hurd or debian/bsd... 

However, not the modules are patented, but the design principles and
implementation strategies. Patents are a wholly different beast than
copyrights.

Marcus

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