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Greg, if you know anybody that has some pull on these kinds of things within IBM, can you contact The FreeBSD Foundation? We might need some kind of "FreeBSD a
by kev009 12y ago
Greg, if you know anybody that has some pull on these kinds of things within IBM, can you contact The FreeBSD Foundation? We might need some kind of "FreeBSD and derivative" exemption or an interpretation of the unexpired patents effects on an RCU implementation. Justin Gibbs said last time he tried to contact IBM he got directed immediately to legal staff and does not have a good contact within IBM.
- gregkh 12y agoTry contacting the Linux kernel RCU maintainer, he should be able to look into if IBM is willing to do this or not. Odds are, they are not, it was a very specific decision to let this be a GPLv2 only patent grant, but as I haven't worked for IBM for almost a decade, I can't speak for them in any form (not that I ever could...)