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Re: [RFC 0/1] Contributing a compound object to the libpthread
- From: Oleh Derevenko <oleh dot derevenko at gmail dot com>
- To: Ben Hutchings <ben dot hutchings at codethink dot co dot uk>
- Cc: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 23:06:47 +0300
- Subject: Re: [RFC 0/1] Contributing a compound object to the libpthread
- References: <CAC1wWD1CVdQtXcAj4kRgJ1mxDHrKf0vRRq5kpRCgEH-a15H40g@mail.gmail.com> <CAC1wWD0ZWef6JBdt3J89vD5Nq0kCukSoe6O1tAs=4tK9F+PixA@mail.gmail.com> <1522762896.2654.94.camel@codethink.co.uk>
Ben,
LGPL in this case is just the same as freeware. You simply create a
LGPL shared library, export functionality from it, and use it
absolutely for whatever you want.
Regarding the patent, I'm not sure it will be approved at all yet. Of
course, I'll do my best but there is some amount of bureaucracy one
has to overcome and there is no certainty who will win. I fully
realize that options available to me are very limited and I'm on mercy
of examiners.
In any case the patent is not for money. So far I have invested about
$700 into it and it is yet going to additionally cost at minimum about
$2500 for 20 years of patent validity period. If I'll be able to earn
that money back that'll already be a big achievement. :-)
All this is more to get a publication and to have a new life experience.
--
Oleh Derevenko
On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 4:41 PM, Ben Hutchings
<ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-04-03 at 02:07 +0300, Oleh Derevenko wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Well guys, really! This is a cool thing!
> [...]
>
> Maybe, but unless you are prepared to license your code and patent
> under LGPL 2.1+ terms then there is no point in bringing it up here.
>
> Ben.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.
>