Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: A reply on the RTLinux discussion. | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 29 May 2002 14:24:38 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 01:31, Roman Zippel wrote: > I am watching this whole mess already quite some time and I am trying > very hard to make sense out of this. Victor pretends to be the nice guy > here, but if one looks closer, one can see how little respect he has for > the open source community and how much he is only interested in his own > advantage. Alan, believe me that I am not doing such accusation easily > and I'm quite aware that I'm not making myself any friends this way, but > I'm not afraid to speak out what I think. I am thinking very carefully > about this and I am not taking this easy.
I've met Victor several times including having discussions over open source philosophy patents and the like. I think he is a good guy. The patent grant says it can be used for GPL software. As a free software author I have no problems at all with Victor's patent. If I want to do proprietary software well shucks, I'm going to have to play by the proprietary rules. I don't see that anti free software. It might be anti how convenient I can mix the two and flog it for lots of money, but thats not free software anyway.
> Victor denies the RTAI people any clear answers about the license.
He told them that if they were not sure they should ask a lawyer. That sounds to me rather correct advice. What kind of answer do you expect. There are really only two that might be expected in such a situation, they I suspect go
"We think you need a license if you use proprietary software with this" and "Ask a lawyer"
Given the first answer RTAI from their whining on this list would take the second answer anyway.
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