The cool thing about the BeagleBone in general is that it’s design is released under a permissive open source license. Kind of like the “Apache 2.0” of hardware

The cool thing about the BeagleBone in general is that it’s design is released under a permissive open source license. Kind of like the “Apache 2.0” of hardware. A Raspberry Pi is closed source (though it can be designed in as a component to a larger open source hardware system). An Arduino is “share-alike”, so more restrictive like a GPL 2+ license.