Editing OpenCores (section)

==Licensing==
In the absence of a widely accepted open source hardware license, the components produced by the OpenCores initiative use several different [[software license]]s. The most common is the [[GNU Lesser General Public License|GNU LGPL]], which states that any modifications to a component must be shared with the community, while one can still use it together with [[proprietary hardware|proprietary]] components. The less restrictive [[BSD licenses#3-clause license ("New BSD License")|3-clause BSD license]] is also used in some hardware projects, while the [[GNU General Public License|GNU GPL]] is often used for software components, such as models and firmware.