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Rockbox Player - Project to design and build a Free/Open hardware audio player

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spark:
i guess GPL was never written with hardware in mind. it really shouldn't matter that much to us.
The firmware (i.e. bootloader, etc) can be released using the same license as Rockbox. (i.e. GPLv2).

The schematic and layout is more of engineering, design and art. You have to copyright them. It is not necessary that we release them under GPL license.  I guess we are free to use any other type of licensing without violating Rockbox software license.

For hardware, we can choose one of the Creative Commons license based on whether we want commercial use or no and whether we want to allow modifications or no, and if modifications are share alike or no.
Selecting one of the various available licenses is easy. check out this link. just select what you want and it will choose the appropriate license.
http://creativecommons.org/license/

i guess this one is appropriate for us

* Commercial use allowed
* Modifications allowed as long as shared alike
* Authors must be attributed
http://creativecommons.org/license/results-one?q_1=2&q_1=1&field_commercial=yes&field_derivatives=sa&field_jurisdiction=us&field_format=&field_worktitle=&field_attribute_to_name=&field_attribute_to_url=&field_sourceurl=&field_morepermissionsurl=&lang=en_US&language=en_US&n_questions=3
explanation
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/

casainho:

--- Quote from: spark on February 27, 2008, 02:38:39 AM ---i guess this one is appropriate for us

* Commercial use allowed
* Modifications allowed as long as shared alike
* Authors must be attributed
--- End quote ---
So, whats the difference between that and GPL2? - we get the same with GPL2, no?

GodEater:
The GPL is a license written specifically to describe software. You're not designing software here - the CC license is much more appropriate for hardware design.

casainho:

--- Quote from: GodEater on February 27, 2008, 05:56:23 AM ---The GPL is a license written specifically to describe software. You're not designing software here - the CC license is much more appropriate for hardware design.

--- End quote ---
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ --> when I click in US, It says "Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported"?? - what that means? I was trying to find some general to all countries and just no to US...

The 2.5 version says Generic instead of the Unported...

I will then edit wiki page to that license.

toffe:
A good page on open hardware and licence

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/making_open_hardware_possible?page=0%2C0
http://www.tapr.org/OHL

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