Re: A reply on the RTLinux discussion.

[John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>]

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:59:17PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> Take that up with Richard Stallman, he defined what the GPL linking
> rules were, nobody else.

What a bogus argument. The patents are licensed for GPL use only, and
then you blame the GPL ? Uh ?

And you're still not addressing the "what if RedHat etc. go bad?"
problem. And bringing up IBM doesn't solve the problem of patents: it
just /adds/ to the worries.

The fact is, I cannot use ideas from these patents in free software
(RedHat's or whoever's) without the risk that some day I will be sued
to hell and back. GPL/free software license or not.

The fact that these patents are much preferred to those held by
companies with agendas who won't license to GPL software, does not make
the patents OK, and frankly I'm quite surprised to hear you saying
this :(

> So why is he still moaning. He's got a legal opinion that he can use
> binary apps on RTAI without paying the license. What else does he want ?

No software patents ?

regards
john

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