On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 01:17:42PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Antonio Vargas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Linux-only doesn't exist per-se, since linux is GPL and any GPL code
> > can be remixed without problems. So, the question would be if it's ok
> > to remix GPL with DFBSD license (whic
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 10:05:36AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Bill Huey (hui) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perhaps clever people can design a RCU-like system which doesn't fall under
> the RCU patent, who knows? Indeed this per CPU replication of kernel data
True, but folks seem to be using
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 01:04:50PM +0100, Erik Wikstr?m wrote:
> On 2006-11-18 12:02, Antonio Vargas wrote:
> Well, there is a difference between copyright-law and patent-law. The
> code is protected by GPL (which is not compatible with BSD-licenses, and
> I doubt that we'll ever see any GPL in t
Erik Wikström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I doubt that we'll ever see any GPL in the kernel). The algorithm (or
> technique or whatever) is protected by a patent and you need a special
> license to use it, which, as far as I know, IBM have not given to anyone
> but Linux.
By the way, on the fo
Antonio Vargas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Bill Huey (hui) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > There are patent issues and the GPL license, but this is just too powerful
>> > an
>> > algorithm to ignore. In many way, this brings out th
On 2006-11-18 12:02, Antonio Vargas wrote:
On 11/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bill Huey (hui) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There are patent issues and the GPL license, but this is just too powerful an
> algorithm to ignore. In many way, this brings out the ultimate in wh
On 11/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bill Huey (hui) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There are patent issues and the GPL license, but this is just too powerful an
> algorithm to ignore. In many way, this brings out the ultimate in what shared
> memory system can do.
Without
Bill Huey (hui) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There are patent issues and the GPL license, but this is just too powerful an
> algorithm to ignore. In many way, this brings out the ultimate in what shared
> memory system can do.
Without entering such troll subjects, the patent issue completely k
