Re: [ox-en] OpenSource design for netbook
- From: "Soenke Zehle" <soenke.zehle web.de>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:28:33 +0100
buglabs also licenses its soft- and hardware under the GPLv3 (strange
that they refer to the GPL as open source license though), but the
modularity seems somewhat limited at this point, not sure how 'open'
buglabs modules are in practice, Soenke
http://www.buglabs.net/license
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