Re: changes made/thanks (re hardware designs)

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

	    At least thats the idea. I think the general feeling from our
    community is that you are too busy finding problems with our goals and not
    helping us look for solutions on how to adapt the GPL free software model
    to free hardware.

The most important help you need is to know that *some* of your goals
are legally impossible.  When you recognize this, you have a chance of
writing a license that will achieve the *rest* of your goals, those
that are legally possible.

So I've been trying to explain what part of your plan is possible and
what is impossible.

The other thing you need is to recognize that you have to start
working with a lawyer now, not later.  Before you can usefully write
drafts of licenses you need to have lawyer explain the principles they
have to be based on.  You need to work with a lawyer at every stage.
That is how I wrote the GPL.