Re: Hardware license

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Rich Walker <rw@shadow.org.uk> writes:

> We've been putting together some robot-related software and hardware. We
> want to release this with a DFSG-compliant license set. For the
> software, GPL, no problems. For the hardware we propose to include .pcb
> files for pcb, .sch files for gschem, and .asm files for the PIC
> firmware. What licenses are appropriate for hardware releases?

If it's got source code of some sort, then it would seem to me that
the GPL is just fine.  Alternatively, you could just use a BSD-style
license.