<html><head></head><body>GPL v3 is specifically 'viral'. In so far as it infects attached / derivative code. Different issue. I would think.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On July 3, 2016 5:44:08 PM EDT, "j. eric townsend" <jet@functionalprototype.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Jul 3, 2016, at 01:56, Nancy Ouyang <nancy.ouyang@gmail.com> wrote:<br /> <br /> Err, was more wondering about the last phrase, "the only thing that certification adds to a project is increased liability to civil suits," which I'm sure is a very unflattering portrayal of the value that certification adds, unless I'm very confused.<br /></blockquote><br />Two disclaimers:<br /><br />- I am not a lawyer and this is not legal opinion.<br /><br />- I worked at TiVo for 10 years (left several years ago) and had the previous disclaimer pounded in to my thick skull. :-)<br /><br />Based on the confusion I’ve seen with lawyers, GPL v3, and using emacs to write software I suspect there might be a fear (without standing?) that open source software + commercial hardware can somehow create an open source hardware product. I have received
legal instruction from a potential client to not use any GPL v3 software — not even emacs to edit text files — on their project because their fear it would make their product also GPL v3. (I ended up not taking that contract.)<br /><br />That sounded a bit odd to me at the time, but Apple is cleaning v3 (and v2) software from each release of OS X:<br /><<a href="http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge">http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge</a>/>.<br /><br />--<br />J. Eric Townsend, IDSA<br />designer | engineer | fabricator<br />jet@functionalprototype.com<br />PGP 0x9D6F2CB8<br /><br /></pre><p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><pre class="k9mail"><hr /><br />discuss mailing list<br />discuss@lists.oshwa.org<br /><a href="http://lists.oshwa.org/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.oshwa.org/listinfo/discuss</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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