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This page is a container serving as a basis for communication during the
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CERN OHL v2 drafting process. It has the [draft
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text](https://www.ohwr.org/5971)
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text](https://www.ohwr.org/5990)
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attached, as well as an embryo of the Frequently Asked Questions which
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will accompany the release.
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will accompany the release. There is also a
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[rationale](https://www.ohwr.org/5991)
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document to provide some context for our decisions and make
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understanding of the draft text easier.
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# Frequently Asked Questions about CERN OHL v2
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#### Q: Is CERN OHL v2 compatible with GPL?
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A:
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A: No. From the [rationale
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document](https://www.ohwr.org/5991):
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> We thought hard about compatibility with other licences. An earlier
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> version of the draft contained a mechanism for options, and a specific
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> option which allowed compatibility with GPLv3. There’s an easy way to
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> allow compatibility, of course: you can insert a clause which
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> explicitly allows relicensing, but this necessarily means that one of
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> the licences will have characteristics which are more forgiving than
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> the other, and users can just pick whichever licence they want. If the
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> original licensor wanted to do this in the first place, they could
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> simply dual license under CERN-OHL and GPLv3. We also found that the
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> mechanism we chose was pretty cumbersome, especially since to make it
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> work, we needed also to add an additional permission to GPLv3. Since
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> we’re essentially asking people to relicense their GPLv3 components
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> anyway (albeit within the mechanism), we felt we should be more
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> explicit about this.
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