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Rockbox Player - Project to design and build a Free/Open hardware audio player
Bagder:
--- Quote from: casainho on February 24, 2008, 04:53:56 AM ---I don't believe in Copyright this hardware
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Now don't confuse copyright with using a free software/hardware license. Everything done can and probably should still be copyrighted fine by the authors of it, but the license should probably be free and open to allow both commercial and non-commercial use of everything. Both because that's what Rockbox does but mostly (IMHO) because that's the spirit we all work on this under.
casainho:
--- Quote from: Bagder on February 25, 2008, 06:12:21 AM ---the license should probably be free and open to allow both commercial and non-commercial use of everything. Both because that's what Rockbox does but mostly (IMHO) because that's the spirit we all work on this under.
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Nice to have your opinion about this subject. So, GPL2 is appropriate?
Draw a schematic to wire an flash memory to an MCU and after copyright it with an GPL2 license, does it have any practical effect? Can someone copy It and use without apply GPL2 license?
Bagder:
--- Quote ---GPL2 is appropriate?
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Sure, the entire Rockbox source code chunk is GPL2 (the debate is weather that is "v2 or later" or just "v2")
--- Quote ---Draw a schematic to wire an flash memory to an MCU and after copyright it with an GPL2 license, does it have any practical effect?
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You don't "copyright it" with a license. You copyright it, and then you release it under a license and that license can indeed be GPLv2.
--- Quote ---Can someone copy It and use without apply GPL2 license?
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I'm not a lawyer, but the whole purpose of GPL is to make sure nobody denies anyone else the source code and ability to build and distribute their own copies and derivates of the original. So no, you can't get the schematic and just "shave off" the license, that's not permitted by the license.
casainho:
--- Quote from: Bagder on February 25, 2008, 07:36:56 AM ---
--- Quote ---GPL2 is appropriate?
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Sure, the entire Rockbox source code chunk is GPL2 (the debate is weather that is "v2 or later" or just "v2")
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And why not V3?
--- Quote from: Bagder on February 25, 2008, 07:36:56 AM ---
--- Quote ---Draw a schematic to wire an flash memory to an MCU and after copyright it with an GPL2 license, does it have any practical effect?
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You don't "copyright it" with a license. You copyright it, and then you release it under a license and that license can indeed be GPLv2.
--- Quote ---Can someone copy It and use without apply GPL2 license?
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I'm not a lawyer, but the whole purpose of GPL is to make sure nobody denies anyone else the source code and ability to build and distribute their own copies and derivates of the original. So no, you can't get the schematic and just "shave off" the license, that's not permitted by the license.
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Okok, my ideas are more clearly now, thanks. So for me, using this kind of license is important!
GodEater:
--- Quote from: casainho on February 25, 2008, 08:32:52 AM ---And why not V3?
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Because it's debatable whether or not it would then be license compatible with everything else that Rockbox has licensed.
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