On Saturday 25 November 2006 15:53, Jonathan J Smith wrote:
> I think part of the problem is the desire to want to keep comparing
> things in hardware land to things in software land.
>
> While there are some corollaries, they really are quite different.  I
> think utilizing this exercise can be somewhat misleading when trying
> to define things for hardware.

I agree. However, there is some overlap, and where they overlap we 
really should be using the same terminology. Otherwise things just 
become way too confusing. For example, one of the recent posts referred 
to open hardware that can only be spread under the same licence as 
Libre. This same concept also exists for software however, and there 
it's called copyleft.

That this concept exists for software shouldn't affect the decision 
whether it should be part of the open hardware definition. However, 
_if_ it is included, it should be called "copyleft".

Lourens

Attachment: pgp9Me9PQgFHH.pgp
Description: PGP signature

_______________________________________________
Open-graphics mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics
List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)

Reply via email to