[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 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?

-- 
Josh Berkus