On Thursday 15 November 2007, John Griessen wrote: > I think of how to partition things so a GPL chunk > is on one processor, and talks to a non-GPL code processor or > FPGA over a bus such as I2C bus or SPI bus. > > No compiling together then. Analogous to reading an A2D > converter... no viral influence on the ADC internal code. > > Is this the correct GPL interpretation?
If they are packaged separately, so a user can choose either part, without the other. RMS has claimed that GPL is not appropriate for hardware. Perhaps it is time for a new license in the spirit of GPL, specifically for hardware. It might work to use GPL with a separate document defining some terms in the new scope, but it would look rather strange. (..... "... object code is the physical manifestation of .....") Suppose I want to distribute a "system" composed of two "modules" .. "A" and "B". "A" is GPL. "B" is proprietary. It doesn't work. However, I can sell you "A" and "B" separately and let you plug them together. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user