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Re: [gNewSense-users] FTL patent in kernel
From: |
Bake Timmons |
Subject: |
Re: [gNewSense-users] FTL patent in kernel |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:31:52 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> Use of the FTL format for non-PCMCIA applications may be an
> infringement of these patents. For additional information,
> contact M-Systems (http://www.m-sys.com) directly.
There is no *copyright* restriction on ftl.c that makes it non-free
software, so it is surely is free. Modifications to it are restricted
here, but such restrictions against infringing on the patent would as
well apply to *any other* free software, so I think ftl.c is OK.
This is in contrast to a recent non-free example on this list, where the
*copyright* conditions explicitly restricted the software to work with
only certain kinds of LocalTalk equipment.