For Approval: Open Source Hardware License
Allison Randal
allison at perl.org
Sat Jul 7 05:02:36 UTC 2007
Rick Moen wrote:
>
> Getting back to my earlier point: I greatly doubt that OSI would refuse
> to examine a licence for no better reason than its title (or text)
> making reference to hardware. However, expecting that the licence
> be one _actually used_ for software seems entirely reasonable, and
> a good heuristic for filtering out time-wasting exercises in theory.
So, people should first release a whole bunch of software/hardware under
the new license, and then go ask the people with experience if their
license is sane and likely to be accepted?
Allison
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