Re: [myhdl-list] MyHDL at PyDay in Córdoba

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

On 05/03/2011 12:40 AM, Christopher Lozinski wrote:
> Thank you for writing that talk.  It is just what is needed.  My
> Spanish was not that good but with the help of Google translate, it
> quite made sense.
>
>> CC BY-SA looks as a good
>> idea.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
>
>
> If you wrote it under that license, I am happy to use it under that
> license.  I had thought there would be one set of licenses for the
> MyHDL community, but i now understand that all kids of people will
> want to participate under different licenses.  For example, one
> person I spoke to was thinking of just releasing to the public
> domain.   We just have to use what is available as is.  Okay.  I get
> it.

Now what is all this supposed to mean?

For the MyHDL core - software, documentation and myhdl.org - there
*is* a single set of licenses. The minimum set of 2, one for
software and one for documentation. I have proposed to move
to CC BY-SA for documentation - but the saldo remains two.

If you want to participate to the core project, you have to
comply with those licenses. For example, Martin's choice makes
it possible to incorporate his contributions in myhdl.org
(after the move) if he or someone else chooses to do so.

If you don't want to participate to the core project, that
is fine. You can still be part of the community. However,
for the community as whole, with all initiatives, ventures
and projects one can imagine, it would be very unwise to
strive for a common set of licenses. Obviously, you don't
want that yourself. For example, for your training class project,
you may (understandably) prefer a closed source license, and
you wouldn't want us to tell you that you should open source
it instead.

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