From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1350 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2004 18:13:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact pthreads-win32-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: pthreads-win32-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 1330 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2004 18:13:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mtagate6.de.ibm.com) (195.212.29.155) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Jan 2004 18:13:13 -0000 Received: from d12relay01.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12relay01.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.180]) by mtagate6.de.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i09ID4JW100718; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 18:13:04 GMT Received: from d12ml007.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12relay01.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id i09ID3Na270486; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 19:13:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <3FFEE036.7000504@hawksoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Sensitivity: To: "Phil Frisbie, Jr." Cc: Nedko Arnaudov , pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Windows kernel-mode implementation of pthreads Message-ID: From: "Alexander Terekhov" Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 18:13:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 "Phil Frisbie, Jr." wrote: [...] > > If not (expected), will it be violation of LGPL=20 > > if I use code from pthreads-win32 in kernel mode > > driver for Windows ? > > If you need to 'cut and paste' then you will need=20 > to publish your source code, ... Not necessarily. http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise9.html II.E.2. Idea-Expression Merger and Sc=E8nes =C0 Faire When there are only a limited number of ways that a=20 concept or idea can be expressed, there is little=20 difference between the idea and its expression, and=20 it is therefore said that the two have "merged."=20 When this happens, the limited number of ways of=20 expressing the idea are not entitled to copyright=20 protection because, in essence, that would be=20 protecting the idea, something outside the scope of=20 copyright. The merger doctrine means that even if=20 things are substantially similar, or even identical,=20 there might not be a copyright infringement. regards, alexander.