[Fedora-legal-list] TAPR Open Hardware License

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Dec 23 16:54:04 UTC 2009


On 12/12/2009 12:54 AM, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> --- On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Tom "spot" Callaway
> <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> | Umm... this license isn't a copyright license, nor is it useful for
> | software, fonts, or content. What are you trying to do with it?
> \--
> 
> Would like to package and ship open hardware designs that are released
> under TAPR with Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) so people can use the FEL
> tools with it.

Red Hat Legal thinks this is non-free, because the indemnification
clause (7.4) is too broad.

~spot




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