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* [OpenRISC] mor1kx licensing
@ 2021-08-04  3:50 Julius Baxter
  2021-08-04  4:31 ` Stefan Kristiansson
  2021-08-06 12:22 ` Jeremy Bennett
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Julius Baxter @ 2021-08-04  3:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: openrisc

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
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2021-08-04  3:50 [OpenRISC] mor1kx licensing Julius Baxter
2021-08-04  4:31 ` Stefan Kristiansson
2021-08-05  1:00   ` Stafford Horne
2021-08-07 18:28     ` Andrey Bacherov
2021-08-06 12:22 ` Jeremy Bennett
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