[Arm-netbook] Use of 2N3904

[luke.leighton]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:35 PM, jm <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:

> You have to excuse my ignorance. I know of the GPL and I have
> heard of the AGPL but not looked at AGPL under microscope.
> Why is it important to have AGPL instead of GPL?

 section 13 is the relevant bit (of AGPLv3).   the difference in the
AGPL is that if you make modifications, you have to make a prominent
offer to all users that interact with it over "remote networks" which
will allow them to download the source code at zero charge via
standard software copying methds.

 i think that's kinda cheeky and also kinda cool at the same time :)

 so, let's say that a chinese company modifies AGPLv3-licensed
hardware, then they would have to put up a notice - probably on-screen
or on the packaging of the device that they copied - saying "the
hardware design can be downloaded from http://gitorious.org/blahblah"
and actually put it up there.

 which means that, as long as they didn't modify over 15-20% of the
schematics such that they could legitimately claim it really _was_
their copyright, they'd be actually advertising your product for free,
yaay! :)

l.