On Tuesday 11 July 2006 03:18, Timothy Miller wrote: > On 7/10/06, Attila Kinali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I rather thought about a sticker "this company helped to develop > > open hardware in some ways". Any rip off company wouldnt get such a > > sticker and thus would have it a lot harder to sell their > > chips/cards. Ie, negative marketing by giving plus points. > > This goes along well with the trademark stuff and all of that. If > someone didn't pay royalties for the IP (just used it under GPL), > they would be barred from using the sticker (because that would be > false advertizing), and barred from using any of the trademarks > (can't say it's OGA compliant or mention Traversal, OGP, OGD, OGA, or > anything).
The company could still be a good citizen though. What if they added a whole lot of stuff to the design, published the combined work under the GPL (including all their own stuff) and then sold the hardware? I'd say they'd be an asset to the community, since they didn't violate any licences, and contributed themselves as well. So I think OHF should give them some kind of certificate then, to show that they're "community-friendly". Lourens
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