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If you want really open and still want to get some money, you could consider an advertising clause like the old 4-clause BSD license: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#4-clause_license_....

Note, however, that people installing stuff on microcontrollers are much more competent than the average consumer.

Thanks - that's a really neat solution - however presumably someone would complain if I called that 'Open Source'?

I think most people will be smart enough not to care as long as they can legally do everything they want to do with the source code, but there will be a few vocal people who will produce huge amounts of negative publicity if it is not 'truly Open Source'.

From a very quick skim, it looks like http://opensource.org/licenses/AAL is "OSI approved", so "official open source"-ish.

But yes, people will be happier with a more usual open-source license.

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