Re: [RFC 0/1] Contributing a compound object to the libpthread

[DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>]

Adding my not-a-lawyer two cents...

Oleh Derevenko <oleh.derevenko@gmail.com> writes:
> Just out of curiosity, may I ask why? Just to blindly obey the rules?

Consider that the GNU C Library is... GNU.  It's owned by the FSF, and
they make the rules when it comes to legalities, and they have lawyers
that have done all the hard work for us too.  And the project has to
have a consistent license to avoid ambiguity.  And the LGPL guarantees
freedoms that other licenses might not.

But in general, yes, we obey the rules as laid out by the copyright
holder.

> After all, I would judge based on the feature's benefits or lack of
> those first.

Unfortunately, because of the copyright and patent issues, we really
can't even *look* at your code yet.  If we did look at your code, and
your license ended up not changing, we would be unable to be fair about
writing similar code in the future and cleanly licensing it with a
different license.  Anyone who read your code would be "tainted".

I admit this makes "just writing code" a bit more difficult and
cumbersome, but that's what we have to do to protect our investments in
our own code in today's legal environment.