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

["Don W. Carr" <>]

>> As a company I can tell you that if I want to put this board into a
>> product and it is licensed under the GPL I have to do weigh the
>> following. How much will it cost me to defend the licensing of my
>> product
>
> Why would you have to?

Simple, someone says I want you to open source all of your code 
because you have used a GPL'd product.
They take the company to court, I have to defend myself regardless.

You can get frivolous lawsuits no matter what license you choose, proprietary, BSD, GPL, MIT, you name it. There are really very few lawsuits involving GPL. Typically, the person is notified that they used GPL code and are not in compliance, and they apologize and do what is necessary to be compliant. End of story.

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