Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:40:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:40:41 -0400 Received: from h24-68-93-250.vc.shawcable.net ([24.68.93.250]:37772 "EHLO me.bcgreen.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:40:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3D6BF2B1.4040404@bcgreen.com> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:44:17 -0700 From: Stephen Samuel Organization: Just Another Radical User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Schwebel CC: "Wessler, Siegfried" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: interrupt latency References: <3D6B88AE.8010206@bcgreen.com> <20020827171622.GQ6981@pengutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1009 Lines: 24 From the message that y ou linked to, it would appear that the RTLinux patent isn't an issue. The letter seems to state that RTLinux has licensed the patent free to any GPL distribution. In other words, their patent would only be a costly problem for a non-GPL system (e.g. Windows or BSD) running under the RT kernel. Robert Schwebel wrote: > Take also into account that RT-Linux is patented technology (for details > see http://www.aero.polimi.it/~rtai/documentation/articles/moglen.html). Did I miss something? -- Stephen Samuel +1(604)876-0426 samuel@bcgreen.com http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel/ Powerful committed communication, reaching through fear, uncertainty and doubt to touch the jewel within each person and bring it to life. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/