Re: Lockless algorithms [was Re: splxxx replacements?]

["Antonio Vargas" <windenntw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/18/06, talon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <talon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bill Huey (hui) <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > There are patent issues and the GPL license, but this is just too powerful an
> > algorithm to ignore. In many way, this brings out the ultimate in what shared
> > memory system can do.
>
>
> Without entering such troll subjects, the patent issue completely kills using
> RCU outside of Linux. RCU is patented IBM with special licence to use in Linux
> only, as far as i remember. Due to the history of IBM  it would be suicidal

Linux-only doesn't exist per-se, since linux is GPL and any GPL code
can be remixed without problems. So, the question would be if it's ok
to remix GPL with DFBSD license (which probably doesn't)

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