[lttng-dev] Quick questions about liburcu and RCU in general

[Richard Braun]

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.

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Richard Braun