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Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 19:06:04 -0800
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
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To: Steve Longerbeam <stevel@mvista.com>
CC: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: new special filesystem for consideration in 2.6/2.7
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Steve Longerbeam wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

A statement in legal terms should be in the patch.
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