Re: [avr-libc-dev] Open Source license for embedded systems

[Rich Teer]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Sebastien Lelong wrote:

>  2. BSD is an appropriate license to distribute programmed chips.
> Distributing/selling programmed chips requires the copyright notice to be
> reproduced, but that's a restriction people have to deal with if they want
> to use it.
> 
> I'm 100% in favor of argument 2.: I consider when using Open Source software
> or libraries, you have to accept restrictions, one of these being : "give
> credit where credit is due". But people in argument 1. say reproducing a
> copyright notice is not possible, and/or don't think programmed chips should
> require to give credit (while considering them as binary forms), and say
> BSD, as many other OS licenses, is not designed for the embedded world.

You are 100% correct.  The BSD (or whatever) licence can be reproduced in
the manual accompanying the product that contains the firmware on chip.
An example would be the inclusiion of the GPL in some (all?) Linksys router
manuals.

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