[cc-community] The Question of Manufacturing Copyleft

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Wed Oct 31 10:15:42 EST 2007


rob at robmyers.org wrote:
> Is there any chance you could turn that post into an article  
> somewhere? It's an excellent explanation of the issues.

Actually, I'm working on an article to try to cover a lot of different
sides of this issue, and this is one argument I'd like to include.

I already have a number of opinions from people in the Open Hardware
Foundation, which is where I'm starting from. But there are a lot of
people with a lot of different opinions on this subject.

The interesting thing is that there isn't too much debate about how
things *should* work -- most of the debates are about "legal facts":
what the law actually allows.

Combine that with the fact that (I don't think) any of us is a lawyer,
and the result is a lot of people groping around in the dark!

The debates about intent that do exist are mostly about whether copyleft
is a good idea for hardware, and how far it should reach if it is.

But I don't think we can even have a useful debate about that until we
understand what *can* be protected by license (or contract).

Cheers,
Terry

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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com



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