[OpenAFS-devel] keyring/pag support for linux

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Tuesday, July 18, 2006 03:45:29 PM -0400 Chaskiel M Grundman 
<cg2v@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> In the case of the RCU (read-copy-update) interface in particular, IBM
> has a patent on this technology, and has only granted royalty-free
> licenses to GPL applications.
> <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110522490820482&w=2> (I
> cannot find a "real" reference for this...)

It doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility that IBM could be convinced 
to grant a royalty-free license to software licensed under the IBM Public 
License.

-- Jeff