Re: [oc] Inquiry

[Marko Mlinar <markom@opencores.org>]

On Tuesday 06 May 2003 13:48, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > [This piece has turned out to be lengthy, but hopefully there
> > is enough interesting stuff in it, especially the second half,
> > to make it worth reading.
>
> [ . . . .  Big-time snip of closely argued discussion about
> the GPL and it's application to commercial cores . . . .]
>
> > These arguments are leading me to believe that the GPL is a very
> > good license for opencores!
> >
> > Thoughts on all this please!
>
> You have just proven one of the points I made earlier:  Commercial
> users avoid Opencores because you need to be a legal expert in order
> to understand how they may and may not be used.  Good work!
>
> To make a Opencores relevant to anybody other than hobbyists and
> small-time support firms, I suggest that an Opencores licence with no
> restrictions (and no liability) be developed.  Anything other than
> that will just scare the typical corporate designer away.
Note that this does not solve anything. The real problems lie elsewhere, e.g.: 
even if you say something is free, your employer could think otherwise...

Marko


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