Re: [rtl-advocacy] Re: Open letter to Victor Yodaiken

[Karim Yaghmour <karym@opersys.com>]

bionic@vassalboro.bu.edu wrote:
> 
> And now a question toward the current patent discussion -
> 
> Is it true that Victor holds the complete patent, or
> do Michael Barbanov and/or NMT have some stake in it?

Curious that you point this out. No, neither Barbanov, nor
NMT are part or are anywhere named in the license.

Even more, all the critical code in RTLinux belongs to FSMLabs,
not to the individuals that made the contribution. This is
necessary if Yodaiken is to be able to sell open-source
contributions in closed-form, as I pointed out earlier.

As such, this combination of double-licensing/patent-enforcing
has never been seen in the GPL world to my knowledge and goes
against all the values of freedom promoted by the GPL.
Clearly this isn't important to anyone at FSMLabs as the
main point seems to be $$$. But that's not really a problem.
The real problem is that the linux community at large still
believes that V. Yodaiken is this genius who brought RTLinux
to this world, forgetting completely about Barbanov, NMT
and all the others that put code into RTLinux and were never
given a copyright mention in the source code. Again, I hardly
seen how Linus goes along with all of this!

Karim

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                 Karim Yaghmour
               karym@opersys.com
          Operating System Consultant
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