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

Elena ``of Valhalla'' elena.valhalla at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 18:20:14 BST 2015


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?

"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

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

The only widespread FLOSS licenses that I know of that doesn't include
similar wording are a Public Domain dedication (such as CC0) and 
the WTFPL.

-- 
Elena ``of Valhalla''



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