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

Robert Schwebel (robert@schwebel.de)
Sat, 25 May 2002 11:02:44 +0200

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:00:02PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Sure. As long as it does not depend on the patent to work.

Larry, please read what Eben Moglen wrote in the article quoted by Karim.

One can think of the FSF whatever one wants (I personally very much dislike
RMS' fanatism, although I like the general idea behind free software), but
just taking what Eben has written sounds very sane to me.

Robert

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