[Ground-station] Guidance on open source licenses

[Bruce Perens]

I have a background in this :-)

Feel free to mail me privately.

    Thanks

    Bruce

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 5:12 AM André Souto via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to hear from people with experience or knowledge in working
> with FOSS alongside a main job where things overlap a bit. I'm sure this is
> not rare so I'm looking for some guidance here.
>
> The gist of it is: I would like to support Phase 4 as much as possible
> with copyleft licenses but at the same time there's some common things I
> wrote for Phase 4 that I could use for Phase 4 and vice versa, where a
> permissive license makes more sense. (Common things here mean FIFOs,
> memories, bus/data manipulation, file I/O, etc)
>
> So, how to balance both? Am I being too hopeful in thinking that both can
> overlap? If yes, how do I ensure I don't jeopardize both Phase 4 and the
> company I'm working for?
>
> Maybe there's guides out there and I'd be grateful if you could share them.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Suoto
>


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