Re: RTLinux patent

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

The modifications would probably be so great that you'd have a
copyrightable work in and of itself.  However, as Marcus has pointed out,
the algorithms are the sticky issue and that would be enough to consign it
to non-free if it was distributable at all--Debian-bsd seems to be back
from the dead, and the *BSD kernel (which one to start with is still a
matter of contention) is most definitely NOT GPL :)  AFACT, the rule
of thumb is that if it's not distributable with any part of Debian, it's
not distributable by Debian PERIOD, which is the way IMHO it should
be.  So I'm going to weasel out of your question by saying that it's
irrelevant in this case :)

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Raul Miller wrote:

> 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... 
> 
> That's certainly true of the unmodified code.
> 
> Do you think that's reasonable to say of code modified to work in
> those environments?
> 
> If so, why?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 

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