<div dir="ltr">Hi Morton,<div><br></div><div>After a quick read it seems that you wish to prevent circumventions of your digital rights management which is applied to the same code which is Open Sourced. This seems somewhat self-contradictory, and I would consider any use restriction at all to be in contravention of the Fields of Endeavor clause. I wrote that clause.</div><div><br></div><div>However, you can probably do what you wish, if you draw more clear lines between what you wish to protect and what you wish to Open Source. It seems to me that you have a robot operating system which you wish to protect, and you also wish to foster an Open Source community of applications to run on top of that operating system. This is analogous to Open Source applications running on Windows or iOS. If you would come back to us with a better description of your goals, we'd be happy to help.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks</div><div><br></div><div> Bruce</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 11:50\u202fAM Morten Fruelund via License-discuss <<a href="mailto:license-discuss@lists.opensource.org">license-discuss@lists.opensource.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-2454022789108596576">
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I am representing Teradyne Robotics A/S, a division of Teradyne inc. (<a id="m_-2454022789108596576OWAc4ac7cc8-864d-6aac-114c-6d6272ef5867" href="https://www.teradyne.com/" target="_blank">https://www.teradyne.com/</a>), that provides robot arms (<a id="m_-2454022789108596576OWA90044508-8bd2-de9b-3faa-56720b8c4301" href="https://www.universal-robots.com/" target="_blank">https://www.universal-robots.com/</a>)
and autonomous mobile robots (<a id="m_-2454022789108596576OWA08f3ac2c-d157-3555-9d25-ee3ab3b59c51" href="https://mobile-industrial-robots.com/" target="_blank">https://mobile-industrial-robots.com/</a>).</div>
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Teradyne Robotics A/S is proposing a new open-source license for graphics <span style="font-size:14.6667px">
(TERO-GL-1.0)</span>, and I am reaching out to this forum to collect feedback on the proposed license before submitting the license for a formal review by the OSI. </div>
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The proposal can be found on this GitHub page: <span style="font-size:14.6667px">
<a id="m_-2454022789108596576OWAe82059b2-ec30-4973-9598-dd38e9f227ed" href="https://github.com/UniversalRobots/TERO-GL" target="_blank">https://github.com/UniversalRobots/TERO-GL</a>,</span></div>
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\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002where the proposed license is provided as the license file (<a id="m_-2454022789108596576OWA190496b1-c43d-bc31-cec4-4e71b7fe46ad" href="https://github.com/UniversalRobots/TERO-GL/blob/main/LICENSE" target="_blank">https://github.com/UniversalRobots/TERO-GL/blob/main/LICENSE</a>),
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the motivation is provided as the README file (<a id="m_-2454022789108596576OWAd81ccda2-23a9-a0b7-76fa-6148991046da" href="https://github.com/UniversalRobots/TERO-GL/blob/main/README.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/UniversalRobots/TERO-GL/blob/main/README.md</a>).</div>
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