Re: [Trisquel-users] will you distribute information about lowrisc, an open source cpu beeing made?

[strypey]

jabjabs claims that OpenRISC is better than lowRRISK because lowRISK uses a  
non-copyleft license. As Stallman in his article on "free hardware designs"  
(https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.html) copyright  
licenses can only be enforced on the hardware *design*, not the manufactured  
hardware itself. A copyleft license does not prevent anyone making secret  
modifications to the design and  manufacturing hardware that implements that  
secret modification. The copyleft is only enforceable if that person  
distributes the design itself. So in this case, it doesn't make any  
difference whether a copyleft or non-copyleft free software license is  
chosen, and we should support both projects.