On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 08:24:37AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > My question is rather about the techniques than the existing > > implementations. Is it safe to implement RCU in an unrelated project under > > GPLv3+, considering it's patented ? > > I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that the GPL patent protection > applies to derived works. So if you start with userspace-rcu, adapt it > to your application, and relicense to GPLv3+, you should be OK. I do > not believe this works if you do a cleanroom implementation, but again, > I am not a lawyer.
Noted. Thank you both for your answers. -- Richard Braun _______________________________________________ lttng-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lttng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lttng-dev
