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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:59:49 -0800
From: Steve Longerbeam <stevel@mvista.com>
Organization: MontaVista Software
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To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: new special filesystem for consideration in 2.6/2.7
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Dave Jones wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:09:09AM -0800, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
> > >An intro to PRAMFS along with a technical specification
> > >is at the SourceForge project web page at
> > >http://pramfs.sourceforge.net/. A patch for 2.6.3 has
> > >been released at the SF project site. 
> > 
> > 
> > A new patch for 2.6.4 is available, but it and the 2.6.3 patch
> > are each ~2900 lines, so I won't post here. But here's the intro:
>
>Without commenting on the code, the biggest thing holding back
>inclusion of this is likely the comment about there likely being
>patents held on parts of that code.
>
>		Dave
>

Dave, true MV has a patent pending, but it would only affect any future use
of the technology in a _non GPL_ operating system. Used in Linux or any
future GPL software, no patent licenses or royalties are involved at all.

I am not a lawyer, but I think I got that right :)

Steve

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