From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrey Bacherov Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 21:28:06 +0300 Subject: [OpenRISC] mor1kx licensing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <70f4e169-cc3f-eff8-0252-c34a89d69764@mail.ru> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: openrisc@lists.librecores.org I agree for CERN-OHL-W too. BR, Andrey 05.08.2021 4:00, Stafford Horne пишет: > I agree as well, CERN-OHL-W sounds right. Also, to do the change a PR > updating all the files headers and the license file would be the way > to do it. > > CCing Andrey as well and he did a lot of work on mor1kx FPU and other parts. > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 1:32 PM Stefan Kristiansson > wrote: >> >> I'm in favor, and I agree that CERN-OHL-W sounds like the right flavor. >> >> On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 6:50 AM Julius Baxter wrote: >>> >>> Hello fellow mor1kx developers, >>> >>> I've been meaning to do this for a while, but I'd like to propose we switch the licence of the mor1kx to the CERN OHL v2, and then I can EOL the OHDL. >>> >>> There are 3 types of the OHL v2 licence, basically 1) strongly reciprocal, 2) weakly reciprocal, and 3) permissive. >>> >>> In the spirit of the OHDL the mor1kx is currently licensed under, I'd suggest we go with the weakly-reciprocal licence, the CERN-OHL-W. >>> >>> The OHWR site has a nice FAQ describing the difference between these v2 flavours: >>> https://ohwr.org/project/cernohl/wikis/faq#q-what-are-all-these-suffixes >>> >>> The idea behind the OHDL was that it'd be file-level copyleft, just like the MPL (or at least as I interpreted it) it was based on (via m-x query-replace in Emacs :-P ). I think it'd be good to back the work Javier and Andrew and Miriam have done with our own work. >>> >>> I'm copying the OpenRISC list because I guess I want to make sure any contributor from the past gets a heads up, too. >>> >>> This is the first time I've done something like this, so am not too familiar with the process. Should I just do a PR on github and we can debate it on there? >>> >>> Anyway, I'm interested in your thoughts. Feel free to contact me off list if you prefer. Unless anyone objects, I'll do a PR relicensing the IP in the coming week or so. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Julius