[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 11/19/20 11:36 AM, Javier Serrano wrote:
> The gateware use case is a central one for us. The lack of adequate
> weakly and strongly reciprocal options for HDL was one of the main
> reasons to draft v2 of the licence. I may have been a bit sloppy with my
> wording in the FAQ. What I meant by software was non-gateware software.
> To the extent that gateware is software, as explained above, I think
> CERN OHL v2 is not only applicable, but a licence I would very much
> recommend.

The FAQ doesn't address gateware either, at least not by name.
Presumably that's what it's addressing when it talks about "design
software"?

That actually is fairly well spelled-out in the FAQ, if so.  And it's
really not fundamentally different from the compiler case in copyleft
software.

But ... the FAQ doesn't address non-gateware software at all.  If we're
evaluating that use-case on this list, it think it's critical to
identify how you see the various "kinds" of source playing out with a
standard software + 3rd-party library situation.

-- 
Josh Berkus