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From: Christoph Zimmermann<nussgipfel@b...>
Date: Fri Aug 3 21:25:57 CEST 2007
Subject: [oc] GPLv3 usable for open HW
thanks for all these answers and comments.i see that the question about licensing hardware designs is still a hot
topic. and the discussions are far away from the software comunities
where it is now more a ideologic discussion where it is here still the
question: can i use this license? what is "software" in my hardware
project? or do we need a own license? and do i prohibit the normal use
of hardware (production/selling/...)?
attila:
"> > have i understood the new GPLv3 right? is it realy so
> > general applicable as i think?
> If you think you've understood GPLv3, read again ;-)"
yes i read it more then one time and decided to ask some other people
to be shure :-)
i have more or less still the same confusion as on the beginning,
because my intial problem was, that i don't have, in my opinion,
software to license. i have a design of a fpga integrator board which i
would like to license in an open/free matter.
so i change at this point of the discussion my question a bit:
which licenses are usable for works like schematics, pcb files, gerber
files?
> TAPR open hardware license is one that asks for something back
> without being a big burden. They ask for communication attempts about
> modifications that are distributed, and if the attempt by email
> fails, that ends that obligation. The form of design details
> communicated is left unspecified and does not have to be complete in
> some rigorous way.
thanks for john to bring the TAPR ohl license to this discussion, i
never heard from it before.
for me personaly it is an important thing that when you made somthing
complex and you made it free/open that something comes back when
someone make something new whith it or make an improvement. like in
science.
but this of course a personal descision.
christoph zimmermann
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