On 5-May-06, at 10:19 PM, Mark Carlson wrote:
> On 5/5/06, pickanameanditstakensoihavethis
> <> wrote:
>> well the licencing has been set to gnu gpl in order to cover the
>> software , ip cores and hardware , but the hardware may have to
>> change to a more bsd like licence as it looks like a gpl will
>> prevent manufactuers form making a profit from manufactureing it,
>> and as without profit it would not be worth making, that will need
>> to be checked and changed to allow it, if it is the case
>
> Quick question:
> I'm no licensing expert, but since you've already released the
> hardware as GPL, don't you have to keep it that way now? (Derivative
> works and such) Or am I incorrect? Is there a way to release it
> under the BSD license now?
The authors of the work can change it, as long as they agree upon the
change.
>
> -Mark
>
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