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I think the Librem5 will have a CC-by-SA 4.0 license, aka copyleft, so it'd have to be open source.
by mbowcutt 7y ago
I think the Librem5 will have a CC-by-SA 4.0 license, aka copyleft, so it'd have to be open source.
- meruru 7y agoThat's a weird statement. Why would they use a CC license, rather than a software license like the GPL?
- swiley 7y agoHave you read the GPL? It makes very little sense for hardware (it’s actually a pretty weird license full of all kinds of software specific things. “Linking” to “operating system components” for example doesn’t make them a derivative work, whatever all that means. There’s quite a lot of other stuff.) The argument for using the GPL when creating copyleft software is that most copyleft software uses the GPL and you want everything to have a compatible license, that’s not really the case for hardware.