Addendums to the LGPL

Kelvin Proctor k.proctor at student.unsw.edu.au
Wed Sep 11 22:04:49 UTC 2002


Hi Folks,

I'm an undergrade electrical engineer in Sydney, Australia.  I am working
with a large US company on an implementation of one of their industrial
communications protocols as part of my thesis.  The specification is freely
available for download but to make/sell a product based on the spec you need
to join the industry group and pay a yearly license fee to get a vendor ID
($US250 p.a.).  (This is to keep the vendor ID's unique etc..)

I have proposed releasing the code I'm working on under the LGPL with the
addendum that:

"This license applies only to this software library itself and does not
imply any right to make or sell XXXX based devices.  A license to make
and/or sell XXXX devices must be obtained from the YYYY."

This is not really designed to adjust the LGPL, just to remind people that
my code is free software but the protocol is not.

I queried if this would be appropriate with SourceForge and they have
referred me here.

What are people's thoughts on this? Is it appropriate?

Regards,

Kelvin Proctor

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