[Arm-netbook] How much to design A20 board?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Elena ``of Valhalla''
<elena.valhalla at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-09-09 at 16:04:26 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> wrote:
>> > Hi Joem, look at olimex boards at
>> > https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/open-source-hardware   they
>> > are OSHW and so the complete design is open source.
>>  the designs are under the "attribution" style licenses, forcing you
>> to advertise as part of the product.  as such they are *not* libre
>> licensed.  if the designs were released under a GPL license it would
>> be a different matter.
>
> really?

 yes.

> "provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy
> an appropriate copyright notice; keep intact all notices stating that
> this License and any non-permissive terms added in accord with section 7
> apply to the code; keep intact all notices of the absence of any
> warranty; and give all recipients a copy of this License along with the
> Program." in GPLv3
>
> "provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy
> an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact
> all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any
> warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this
> License along with the Program." in GPLv2

 so that's in the source code.

> Not very different from the Attribution clause in
> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode

 attribution clauses require you to advertise *on the product*.

 that's utterly different from requiring to maintain the copyright
notice and the fact that there is a license *in the source code*.

if you're not familiar with or don't clearly understand the
difference, look up the history behind why the Debian Team renamed
firefox to "iceweasel".

 l.