Re: [ts-7000] Re: new GNU openhardware ep9302 based SBC

["Don W. Carr" <>]

As long as you own all of the copyrights, you have the right to release
it under any other license you would like (though other users could
continue using the GPL version). The copyright owner is the only one
that can do this though. If you had a large project, with lots of
contributions from many different people, then you would have to get
everybody to agree to release their code under BSD, or rewrite the
works of those that did not agree.

On 5/5/06, 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?

-Mark

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