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Author: aitor_czr
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Single-board usable with fully free software?

On 10/03/16 11:50, aitor_czr <aitor_czr@???> wrote:
> At the same time, i'm currently looking at the following single-board:
>
> https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/open-source-hardware
>
> and the operating system based on Debian:
>
> http://www.armbian.com/olimex-lime-2/
>
> which i can't really grasp if is fully Free Software/Hardware or blobed
> down.
>
> I just downloaded Armbian and there is an archive with the GPL licence.
> So, the software is released under GPL, but i guess that the hardware of
> this single-board rapes the licence in any way, being the required
> software Open Source rather than Free Software.


I cloned the git repo of the project:

https://github.com/OLIMEX/OLINUXINO

and this is the content of the LICENCE file:

HARDWARE:

The Hardware project is released under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
You may reproduce it for both your own personal use, and for commertial
use.
You will have to provide a link to the original creator of the project
http://www.olimex.com on any documentation or website.
You may also modify the files, but you must then release them as well
under the same terms.
Credit can be attributed through a link to the creator website:
http://www.olimex.com


SOFTWARE:

The software is released under GPL.


Aitor.