[ohf-licenses] GPL-Affero license

[Hamish Marson]

Quoting Greg London <email at greglondon.com>:

> So, I emailed the Free Software Foundation and told
> them about the problems with using GNU-GPL for hardware.
> They recommended I look at the Affero GPL license.
>
> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html/
>
> I haven't read through all of it, but the preamble
> sounds like it was meant to address the same GPL
> loophole that the Apple Public Source License closes,
> i.e. modifications are kept local on a server,
> the derivative is not distributed.
>
> So, it may be that open hardware projects could use the
> Affero GPL.


Have you had a look at the license that OpenMoko uses? They release  
their CAD work freely for the hardware... I'm not sure what license  
it's under though, because their wiki doesn't seem to say... (I  
haven't downloaded their CAD files & looked myself yet).

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