Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)]

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <[e-mail]> Robert Schwebel wrote:
>
> recently and there are surely things left which have to be cleaned up. It
> is common agreement between the RTAI team that patches and schedulers are
> GPL, self-developed services are LGPL. 

And to get this right: that fact that the "other"  parts  are  LGPLed
does  not  mean  that  the  RTAI team wants to keep it secret Cor put
restritctions on use - on contrary, we want  to  provide  RTAI  users
ADDITIONAL freedom - the freedom of the decision if they want to make
their application code GPLed or not.

Wolfgang Denk

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