Re: Hardware license

2002-12-07 Thread Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller
Hi! On Thursday 05 December 2002 14:16, Henning Makholm wrote: and the law explicitly permits redistribution of a particular copy once it has been sold or given to someone with the permission of the author. Same thing applies to the German Authors Rights Law. Sloppy translation: | ยง17 [...]

Re: Hardware license

2002-12-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit David Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 18:58, Henning Makholm wrote: I throw away the source CD and then start selling the binary discs from my retail store. My poor customers will be left with binaries and no way to get source, much contrary to the intentions behind

Hardware license (status)

2002-12-05 Thread Rich Walker
licenses are appropriate for hardware releases? After interesting discussion on and off debian-legal, I'm now down to a choice of one hardware license for everything except the firmware which will be GPL'd. The hardware license is probably the OHGPL http://www.opencores.org/OIPC/OHGPL.html with clause

Re: Hardware license

2002-12-05 Thread Rich Walker
Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 02 December 2002 21:04, Walter Landry wrote: Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.opencores.org/OIPC/OHGPL.shtml. The OpenIPCore license is a more of a copyleft, so you'll

Re: Hardware license (status)

2002-12-05 Thread Terry Hancock
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 06:28 pm, Rich Walker wrote: After interesting discussion on and off debian-legal, I'm now down to a choice of one hardware license for everything except the firmware which will be GPL'd. The hardware license is probably the OHGPL http://www.opencores.org/OIPC

Re: Hardware license

2002-12-04 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. AFAIK, the copyleft in the GPL is not strong enough to prevent that a chip that has been built from a GPLed design is bought by a non-licensee, and resold, soldered into a non-free circuit. This is like creating a non-free

Re: Hardware license

2002-12-04 Thread David Turner
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 18:58, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. AFAIK, the copyleft in the GPL is not strong enough to prevent that a chip that has been built from a GPLed design is bought by a non-licensee, and resold, soldered into a

Re: Hardware license

2002-12-03 Thread Terry Hancock
On Monday 02 December 2002 12:04 pm, Walter Landry wrote: Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The LART license is probably required reading on this subject ;-) http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/LICENSE This is pretty much the same as the BSD license.

Re: Hardware license

2002-12-03 Thread Walter Landry
Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi On Monday 02 December 2002 21:04, Walter Landry wrote: Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Yes; I'm currently looking at that and the OpenIPCore license.

Re: Hardware license

2002-12-02 Thread Walter Landry
Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Umm; the .sch and .pcb files are not really source code; they are more like .pdf files. Also, I'm using a GPL rather than BSD license for the traditional philosophical reasons: this is an addition to

Re: Hardware license

2002-12-02 Thread Walter Landry
Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 26 November 2002 01:59 pm, Rich Walker wrote: We've been putting together some robot-related software and hardware. We want to release this with a DFSG-compliant license set. For the software,

Re: Hardware license

2002-11-28 Thread Rich Walker
Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Umm; the .sch and .pcb files are not really source code; they are more like .pdf files. Also, I'm using a GPL rather than BSD license for the traditional philosophical reasons: this is an addition to the commons, rather than a gift to the

Re: Hardware license

2002-11-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We've been putting together some robot-related software and hardware. We want to release this with a DFSG-compliant license set. For the software, GPL, no problems. For the hardware we propose to include .pcb files for pcb, .sch files for gschem, and .asm

Re: Hardware license

2002-11-27 Thread Rich Walker
Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We've been putting together some robot-related software and hardware. We want to release this with a DFSG-compliant license set. For the software, GPL, no problems. For the hardware we propose to include .pcb files for pcb, .sch files for gschem,

Re: Hardware license

2002-11-27 Thread Walter Landry
Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We've been putting together some robot-related software and hardware. We want to release this with a DFSG-compliant license set. For the software, GPL, no problems. For the hardware we propose to include .pcb

Re: Hardware license

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Hancock
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 01:59 pm, Rich Walker wrote: We've been putting together some robot-related software and hardware. We want to release this with a DFSG-compliant license set. For the software, GPL, no problems. For the hardware we propose to include .pcb files for pcb, .sch files

Hardware license

2002-11-26 Thread Rich Walker
Hi, We've been putting together some robot-related software and hardware. We want to release this with a DFSG-compliant license set. For the software, GPL, no problems. For the hardware we propose to include .pcb files for pcb, .sch files for gschem, and .asm files for the PIC firmware. What