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From: Víctor López<victor.lopez@o...>
Date: Thu May 8 20:40:55 CEST 2008
Subject: [oc] How to sell an open core?
I was wondering that with the LGPL license I am letting anybody make
profit out of my cores as long as they leave my name in the author's
field... would that permit the obscene situation in which an enterprise
sells my core to other enterprise without even making any changes to
it? Or am I wrong?
I mean, acting as a devil's advocate, what if I take all the LGPL
cores at OpenCores and sell them thru Xilinx's coregen program? I do
know I can get them for free at opencores.org... but who else does? I'd
like to know anybody's thoughts about this.
Personally, I don't mind about other people making money by
integrating my opencore in a bigger system (JPEG encoder core as a part
of a digital camera, for instance), but I'd like to know who is using
it, just for the sake of it. What license would make sense for that?
Regards,
Víctor López
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