Of course the goals of the GGPPLL should be made clear
before a license can be created.
I'm of a copyleft mindset.
A very interesting read (IANAL) about copyleft vs. hardware:
http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr/article/view/69/131In his analysis above, Andrew Katz makes a convincing (to
this non-lawyer) argument that there may not be a robust
way to make a copyleft open hardware license.
The best known (to Google) copyleft Open Hardware Licenses:
http://www.tapr.org/OHLhttp://www.ohwr.org/projects/cernohl/wikiMy desire for the DodoHand is that the design files
would go with the hardware, should someone undertake
to produce the hardware commercially (not that I think
this a likely scenario) so that the keyboard owner would
have the necessary information to reproduce the device
when the commercial producer folds.
There seems to be a (prevailing ?) GH zeitgeist of "Put it
into the public domain!", which I seem to be slightly out-
of-step with, and for which no special license would seem
necessary.
@mkawa: perhaps you should take a poll of the folks on GH
who are creating designs to get a feel for what is desired?
If we have any lawyers, perhaps they can comment on the
Katz analysis?