The misleading information in the Parabola project's news originates in the
misleading information in the EOMA68 campaign page. I believe I have quoted
several times already this statement:
"This project has been extremely unusual in that it has been a Libre Hardware
and Software project right from the beginning. Many projects claim a degree
of “open-ness”, using the word “open” in order to attract users and
developers, but a simple in-depth investigation of such projects quickly
reveals the claim of “open-ness” to be misleading or outright false." --
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
It's ironical that they point fingers to other projects that claim their
hardware to be "libre hardware" even though it's not libre when you look more
closely. Well, let's look together more closely to EOMA68 board. Are the PCB
source files (the circuit board design/layout source files) under a free
license? No. It hasn't been "right from the beginning", it's not now. When
(if) it's going to be? We don't know. We aren't offered a deadline.
And please don't say "it has nothing to do with anything lkcl has done". Have
you read Paul's conversation with him? It's been linked here several times:
"Then it is fair to say that the circuit board design is not free at this
point but may be freed later." -- PaulK,
https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/dev/2016-August/004349.html
"The question is whether the source form of the circuit board as sold are
free or not. Based on the elements I grasp from your answers and what was
reported in this thread, the answer is visibly no. [...] Please make it clear
if I'm wrong, otherwise there is no further need to discuss this matter." --
PaulK, https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/dev/2016-August/004352.html
