[cc-community] Open Hardware Licence
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu May 7 11:40:15 EDT 2009
> If you want copyleft style protection on hardware code
> I think you need to use APSL. If you use anything else,
> you're pretty much putting it in the public domain
> because most licenses don't trigger because the source
> code is never distributed by the vendor.
The AGPLv3 addresses it for software in some cases but not generally-
however I would strongly suggest talking to an IP expert before trying to
apply any of the software licences to non software - they can blow up in
spectacular ways.
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