Re: gEDA-user: Draft Licence for Open Source Hardware published (OT)

["Windell H. Oskay" <windell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 14, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> 
> And my usual questions:
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> http://lwn.net/Articles/396011/

I've had some part in this.   Whether or not proprietary design files can be compatible with open source hardware has been an active topic of debate, even amongst the people writing that draft definition.   It's a tough, tough call, for all the reasons that Bunnie mentions.  

I think that the proper place to resolve this issue is in the actual *licenses,* which as with OSS may vary from permissive to restrictive.  I'd like to see the evolution of at least one OSHW license where a requirement is that the design files for the project-- and its derivative works --need to be in open, documented formats.


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