Re: [oc] New License update

["jamie morken" <jmorken@home.com>]

Hi all,

I don't know what all the fuss is about.  Why not use GPL?  If opencores is
worried about what the
commercial core users think then why is it called opencores?

best regards,
Jamie Morken


----- Original Message -----
From: <bob.cousins@philips.com>
To: <cores@opencores.org>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [oc] New License update


> >I agree with you on this point but I think it will not
> >be easy to implement the hardware from the design
> >files without any modification "at least after
> >testing" which is again makes it very difficult for
> >companies to implement it.
>
> I may be naive or I misunderstood here but I think if a company wants
> to implement an open design then they should be prepared to distribute
> the mods they made.
> GPL/LGPL makes it possible for commercial interests to participate
> in open projects without them comprosing the goals of GNU, which is
> great.
>
> Providing a back-door for commerce to profit from open designs
> but have a handy "proprietary" changes tag to avoid contributing back
> seem to go against the grain to me. Aren't they getting their cake
> and eating it?
>
> If a company doesn't want to take contribute to the open development and
> wants to retain control of proprietary features they are
> quite able to design their own IP the way they have always done. We don't
> lose out because they weren't going to contribute anything back anyway!
>
> Just my 2c.
> --
> Bob Cousins
> Software Engineer.
> "Beginning and end are part of a single ring and no one can comprehend
> its principle. " - Chuang Tzu
>