[Klug-general] Gpl

Fish goldfish654 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 22:40:15 UTC 2010


2010/1/24 Alex Layfield <alex at alexlayfield.force9.co.uk>:
> Can GPL be used for hardware/inventions too?

Yes, but take care.  You need to be careful as to what is described as
the "source", and other definitions.

Historically people have gone with Creative Commons since it's a bit
more generalised e.g.
http://www.ladyada.net/make/tvbgone/download.html

Patents can take a long time to be given, which is something to bear in mind.



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