License for the forked or modified Board?
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dumtux commented
The License of this project is defined as CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 - Strongly Reciprocal.
I would like to know about the following cases, as I don't have a clue understanding about CERN Open Hardware Licenses.
- I would like to use this board for a commercial project. The client does not want to put the design in public. Can I?
- I would like to publish my modified version of this board, e.g. upgrade for BT5.0 on GitHub, with the same open license, but another name. Can I?
YuzukiTsuru commented
CERN-OHL-S is a strongly reciprocal licence. For example, if you release HDL files under CERN-OHL-S and then somebody uses those files in their FPGA, when they distribute the bitstream (either putting it online or shipping a product with it) they need to make the rest of the HDL design available under CERN-OHL-S as well. And same for PCB, (like GPL)
dumtux commented
Makes sense.
So it is more like GPL, less like BSD for software licenses.
Thank you.