[time-nuts] TAPR Open HArdware License -- Public Comment Period

[John Ackermann N8UR]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <45D0A6AD.2080306 at febo.com>, John Ackermann N8UR writes:
> 
>> Well, I wasn't getting paid anything, so my incentive was to make it 
>> short. :-)  It's less than three pages long with a normal font and margins.
>>
>> For what it's worth, GPL v2 (including preamble) is 2970 words.  The OHL 
>> is 1244.
> 
> critter phk> wc /usr/src/share/examples/etc/bsd-style-copyright 
>       27     226    1406 /usr/src/share/examples/etc/bsd-style-copyright

Yup, but the BSD license, much as I like it for many applications, 
doesn't do the things we were trying to accomplish.  I will openly admit 
that we were trying to emulate the GPL framework rather than the BSD 
approach.

Anyway, I buy your point that short is good, but I think the current 
document is about as short as it can be without losing the essential 
points we were trying to make.  Trying to tweak the BSD license just 
wouldn't work (among other things, copyright is the least important 
aspect of a hardware license; dealing with patents is a much bigger 
deal, and the BSD license doesn't even contemplate that).

John