Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on J-core?

[dguthrie]

I don't see it as necessarily a problem to use BSD licensing. For instance  
the hardware might need to combine certain proprietary designs, which might  
be beneficial considering the dire lack of free hardware available, and the  
design might need to combine a proprietary connector for compatibility. It is  
so hard for a user to make hardware since they have no access to fabrication  
tech, so from their point of view whether the design is GPL or BSD it is not  
a concern. Unscrupulous manufacturer would take a GPL design anyway and make  
their own device. The bottom line is that GPL doesn't really protect the  
user's freedom more with hardware, since it is such a different situation to  
software.