Hello all,
currently I am working on a small project involving ESP8266 based hardware using the
Arduino core, Arduino IDE libraries and various sensors.
After prototyping I would like to merge everything together on a single PCB and upload to Github together with the firmware I have written to share as open-source hardware.
Since this is my first "public" project, I was looking into the licensing issue and after reading a whole lot of discussions, licenses and articles on licenses I must admit: I don’t get it. Now I am even more confused then before.
Can someone break it all down for me, so that I understand what I would have to consider? What licenses can I use? What are the options / differences? Does it even matter that much?
Arduino libraries are published under CC-BY-SA
ESP8266 Arduino libraries are published under GNU LGPL v2.1
The hardware will be my own design and I am considering CERN OHL, so I am mainly interested in licensing issues on the software side.
Thank you and best regards,
Frederik