Re: RTLinux patent
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:45:58PM -0500, owinebar@free-expression.org wrote:
> > Fortunately not. Read sections 7 and 8 of the GPL. If a patent prevents
> > you from distributing a GPL'd program, you may not do so. The DFSG is
> > concerned with Copyright, and so does not apply here as long as the DFSG
> > is satisfied.
> >
> When you distribute this program, the recipients do not (according to
> the patent holders) have the full rights the GPL grants. They cannot
> modify it to run under Windows, Mac, or whatever else (or, more likely,
> adapt parts to run under Windows, MacOS, or whatever).
Provided that Windows, MacOS, or whatever had a GPL'd framework, you
COULD.
The fact that they don't means that you can't, regardless of the patent.
Anything based on the rtlinux source would be a derivative of the linux
kernel in some way because rtlinux itself is, and therefore the patent
doesn't restrict this.
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