Marco Stornelli wrote:
There's a MontaVista patent on PRAMFS and I think that most of times when a company hears this thing it skips quickly this solution.
Hmmm. I don't recall anything about a patent on PRAMFS. There are lots of issues here, but I think it's OK to use. At a minimum, MontaVista's PRAMFS was submitted to the CE Linux Forum in an older kernel (2.4.20-based). MontaVista was well-aware of this submission (although it did not come directly from them). MV was under an IP agreement with CELF which required them to disclose such patents to the forum, and none was received. In any event (and without wanting to start a large off-topic legal thread here), some lawyers would interpret the knowing publication of an implementation embodying a patent under the GPL to be an implicit license of use for the patent. YMMV. IANAL. Seek your own counsel on this.
Sometimes ago I sent a porting to 2.6.24, but I didn't receive any response.
I'd love to see this. Did this go to LKML? If so, about when? (Alternatively, could you make it available somewhere?) Thanks, -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America ============================= -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
