On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:45:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Fortunately not. Read sections 7 and 8 of the GPL. If a patent prevents > > you from distributing a GPL'd program, you may not do so. The DFSG is > > concerned with Copyright, and so does not apply here as long as the DFSG > > is satisfied. > > > When you distribute this program, the recipients do not (according to > the patent holders) have the full rights the GPL grants. They cannot > modify it to run under Windows, Mac, or whatever else (or, more likely, > adapt parts to run under Windows, MacOS, or whatever).
Provided that Windows, MacOS, or whatever had a GPL'd framework, you COULD. The fact that they don't means that you can't, regardless of the patent. Anything based on the rtlinux source would be a derivative of the linux kernel in some way because rtlinux itself is, and therefore the patent doesn't restrict this. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 <dark> "Let's form the Linux Standard Linux Standardization Association Board. The purpose of this board will be to standardize Linux Standardization Organizations."