[cc-community] Open Hardware Licence

Greg London email at greglondon.com
Mon May 11 10:03:02 EDT 2009


>> Wrong.
>
> Glad to know you can mind read the US supreme court and the EU higher
> courts, and a few others. Your talents are clearly wasted here.
>
> I'll take the advice I get from a qualified IP lawyer over the insults
> and weirdness from yourself.

Gee Wally, when it comes to the protection that GNU-GPL will
provide to an open hardware project, I'll take FSF's own admission
that it will NOT protect the project over you're interpretation
of your lawyer's interpretation of EU law interpreted for
US law that maybe someday the courts will change things so that
GNU-GPL could protect hardware.

GNU-GPL doesn't protect open hardware.

And if someday in the future the magical court decision fairy
hands down a decision that completely rewrites copyright law
so that silicon is a copyright derivative of source code, then
yeah, GNU-GPL will protect hardware source code. But that will
so completely up-end the vitally important separation between
expression versus functionality that it will turn IP law
on its head.

Until that doomsday decision comes, GNU-GPL
won't protect an open hardware project. And it doesn't
matter how many arguments from ignorance you invoke,
how many lawyers you talk to, or how many red herrings
you throw out to avoid simply saying "I'm wrong", the
GNU-GPL still won't protect open hardware. End of story.

You are wrong.





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