[Discuss] "Open" licenses

[Andrés Delgado]

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On 03/07/14 07:27, Michael McCormack wrote:
> Is there anyone who routinely reviews licenses to say "yes" or "no" to open?  I was looking at
license associated the ST NUCLEO boards:
>
>
http://www.st.com/st-web-ui/static/active/en/resource/legal/legal_agreement/license_agreement/open_platform_license_agreement_v3.pdf
>
> and off the top of my head, I'd say it is pretty much not what most
people consider the term open to mean as it limits my use to only their
products.  I realize that they may not have any legal grounds to limit
my use, as hardware is subject to patents and not copyrights and without
a patent on their boards they probably have nothing to license.  But my
question is more general though prompted ST non-open-license - is there
someplace that weighs in on whether a someone's new license is open or not?
I think is pretty hard to hunt every single license out there, what we
could do is recommend users to verify themselves by using OSHWA
guidelines or those from freedomdefined.org

If somebody has the time/resources we could also come up with a list of
those already verified.


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Atentamente,

Andrés Delgado
http://andres.delgado.ec
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