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Re: gEDA-user: firmware and the GPL license
On Nov 15, 2007 8:10 AM, al davis <ad151@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> RMS has claimed that GPL is not appropriate for hardware.
For hardware. Hardware isn't what is in question. Software running
on said hardware is what is in question.
BTW, did you know that RMS *does* consider the Verilog/VHDL that is
used to program an FPGA software? Hence, GPL *does* apply to
programmable hardware.
> Perhaps it is time for a new license in the spirit of GPL,
See http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html
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Samuel A. Falvo II
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