Since I've gotten no objections, I'm going to add the TAPR OHL to the licenses under which the OGD1 PCB can be licensed. GPL and Traversal will persist as well. I'll add an announcement to wiki.
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Timothy Normand Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > It's been suggested that we apply the TAPR Open Hardware License to > OGD1. As far as I can tell, it's like GPL but has some > patent-protection clauses and make some other statements about > manufacturing something you've licensed under OHL. Our main reasons > for using GPL is that (a) we want anyone to be able to look at and use > the source material and make their own (per the license), (b) require > anyone making derivative works to share their changes, and (c) allow > us as the original copyright holder to take money for non-open-source > licensing of the product to anyone who wants to combine our design > with theirs without releasing the changes publicly. Does anyone see > any reason how applying the TAPR OHL would change any of that? If > not, then I propose that we add the TAPR OHL as a license under which > OGD1 can be licensed. > > http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html > > Thoughts? > > -- > Timothy Normand Miller > http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti > Open Graphics Project > -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
