[ohf-licenses] ohf-licenses Digest, Vol 6, Issue 2

[Greg London]

After the cookouts and fireworks, I'll try to read through
the license. I'll keep an eye out for that issue.

The email they sent me actually spent
more time telling me why I shouldn't use the phrase
"intellectual property" than it spent telling me the
answer to my actual question about licenses, so,
I was taking their reply with a grain of salt.

But I'll try to read the license this weekend.



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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:44:31 -0500
> From: Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com>
> Subject: Re: [ohf-licenses] GPL-Affero license
> To: ohf-licenses at openhardwarefoundation.org
> Message-ID: <486D564F.9030303 at anansispaceworks.com>
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> Greg London wrote:
>> 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/
>
> It sounds to me like they totally misunderstood your point. Affero does
> NOT "close this loophole" for hardware.
>
> What it does is to require that you provide a means of downloading the
> source code from the server (actually I think it prevents you from
> removing such code if it is provided).
>
> This doesn't help at all for the hardware case, IMHO.
>
> I think that the APSL mechanism is useful but the APSL license itself is
> not appropriate either, as it is clearly specific to software.
>
> Cheers,
> Terry
>
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> Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
> Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com
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