[License-review] For Approval – CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2– Strongly Reciprocal (SPDX: CERN-OHL-S-2.0); CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2– Weakly Reciprocal (SPDX: CERN-OHL-W-2.0); CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2– Permissive (SPDX: CERN-OHL-P-2.0)

[Josh Berkus]

On 7/20/20 11:20 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 7/20/20 9:54 AM, Simon Phipps wrote:
>>
>>     I have no personal experience with open hardware licenses, and am not a
>>     hardware engineer.  So I planned to sit this one out.
>>
>>  
>> Since these are submitted to OSI for review, they need to be reviewed as
>> licenses suitable for use with software as approval will indicate that. 
>> Indeed, I believe that was the original intent of the submitters. So it
>> would be better if those of us without the background to consider
>> hardware licensing did not sit this one out!
> 
> Is that realistic, though?  I have to say as a developer I would not
> consider something called the "open hardware license" for any of my
> software.  Or are we looking at embedded software specifically?
> 

Oh, pardon me while I answer my own question:

Special purpose: the licence suite has been designed to apply to
hardware, and also to software which has been embedded in, and used in
conjunction with, hardware.

... so it's embedded software we're talking about.  Will read in that
context.

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Josh Berkus