[Cryptech Core] CrypTech hardware license

Phil Roberts roberts at dkey.org
Wed Dec 12 20:35:24 UTC 2018


    > 
    > Has there been a discussion of what hardware license to use for the
    > CrypTech hardware designs?
    
    The last time we had this discussion we said "BSD" and left it at
    that.  Think long and hard before taking the lid off of that. :)

>> So, this is qualified by a big "I am not a lawyer."

>> I am fine with BSD as a principle (more than fine, and very flexible__).  I've had conversations with a couple of different lawyers informally about what we are doing and they have suggested that because what one is licensing with the hardware is the designs of it, something other than BSD is needed.  So it might need some further refinement.

>> What CrypTech has is fine for us (Diamond Key) for now, but when we get to a point where we are shipping a real product (Q2 hopefully), we will need to have this nailed precisely, so I think we (CrypTech) need to have it on the list of things to work out early next year.

>> Regards,
>>.  Phil



 



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