Re: LuaJIT 2.0 intellectual property disclosure and research opportunities

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

Mike Pall wrote:
>   I hereby declare any and all of my own inventions contained in
>   LuaJIT to be in the public domain and up for free use by anyone
>   without payment of any royalties whatsoever.
>
>   [Note that the source code itself is licensed under a permissive
>   license and is not placed in the public domain. But this is an
>   orthogonal issue.]
>
> I cannot guarantee it to be free of third-party IP however. In
> fact nobody can. Writing software has become a minefield and any
> moderately complex piece of software is probably (unknowingly to
> the author) encumbered by hundreds of dubious patents. This
> especially applies to compilers. The curent IP system is broken
> and software patents must be abolished. Ceterum censeo.

Nice copyright statement, I think I'll steal it someday. Assuming it's 
not patented ;-)

I'll add my congratulations for your great work on LuaIJT 2.0. Even if 
most of the technical discussion is well above my head (I hardly lifted 
Lua's lid to look at its internals), it's definitely a strong incentive 
to use Lua for more and more high-performance code.

  Enrico