Re: [oc] Inquiry

[Niclas Hedhman <niclas@hedhman.org>]

On Thursday 08 May 2003 01:29 am, Marko Mlinar wrote:

> I think that any existing licence we choose, will have to be modified to HW
> needs.

Agree, wholeheartedly.
GPL doesn't even handle Java very well, compared to C/C++, because Java's 
natively dynamic nature. The Java community wants to see a revised GPL 
adjusted for Java, especially the "link to" concept.

> Furthermore we will need a central repository (probably a legal entity,
> like FSF) of (hand) signed contracts with developers and this central
> repository. 

Yes, that sounds correct. All the successful OSS operates under a legal 
entity, be it FSF, ASF and many more.

> I am quite confident that the above thinking is correct, so it is just a
> question who will do it ;)

I can imagine it is hard to get this going, and I think we, as a community, 
should in such case seek help from people who have done this in the past. I 
think, for instance, Apache Software Foundation would be interested to help 
out, because OC is trying to establish "Open-Source Hardware" equivalent and 
would be seen as a milestone.


Niclas
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