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From: Víctor López<victor.lopez@o...>
Date: Thu Jan 6 21:41:53 CET 2005
Subject: [oc] License
> You reject the GPL saying that no company will accept it,
>And I have to agree.
> but
> propose a new license that does not allow commercial use?
Philipp, I am just saying what I would like and that is two licenses:
A general one for cores anybody could use (commercially) and another one
for non-profit research and educational purposes. The second one is not
a good idea? maybe, I just said what I would like, I did not say I did not
want cores to be used in commercial projects, indeed it would be the first
the one everybody would use, but the second (educational and research =
non-profit) would maybe open a new scope of cores from enterprises (not
me) who could then contribute code knowing that it wouldn't harm their business.
>a GPL like: so everybody can use and improve etc... And the most important
>reason ... keep 'open hardware development' going on.
>and a LGPL like: the original author can make the 'core' for some purpose
>available under an other
>more restrictive license in which the user is not obligated to contribute
his >own written parts.
Patrick, I dont understand what you mean with those two HW GPL like licenses.
Do you mean that with the GPL license, the HW vendor that uses the core
is required to publish his propietary parts of the chip?? Indeed, in your
description, both the GPL and LGPL allow open hardware development go on.
I think we can't just expect that companies using our cores will contribute
in any way to them! the code they make is propietary, it would only be ok
to demand that changes to the core they got from us should be made available
thru the same license the core was published. Is that what you mean with
GPL?
I personally don't think that enterprises will want to contribute to our
effort, we can expect in justice only that our copyright note and disclaimer
be in their products, stating that a part of their product has been made
from an open core from author Xxxxx.
I agree with Richard Herveille and Rudolf Usselmann in that modified BSD
is a good starting point as a LGPL kind of HW license that would fit us.
Regards,
Víctor López
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