From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Kristiansson Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 07:31:55 +0300 Subject: [OpenRISC] mor1kx licensing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: openrisc@lists.librecores.org 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: