Licenses Open-source hardware




noteworthy licenses include:



the tapr open hardware license: drafted attorney john ackermann, reviewed oss community leaders bruce perens , eric s. raymond, , discussed hundreds of volunteers in open community discussion
balloon open hardware license: used projects in balloon project
although software license, opencores encourages lgpl
hardware design public license: written graham seaman, admin. of opencollector.org
in march 2011 cern released cern open hardware license (ohl) intended use open hardware repository , other projects.
the solderpad license version of apache license version 2.0, amended lawyer andrew katz render more appropriate hardware use.

the open source hardware association recommends 7 licenses follow open-source hardware definition. general copyleft licenses gnu general public license (gpl) , creative commons attribution-sharealike license, hw specific copyleft licenses cern open hardware license (ohl) , tapr open hardware license (ohl) , permissive licenses freebsd license, mit license, , creative commons attribution license. openhardware.org recommended in 2012 tapr open hardware license, creative commons by-sa 3.0 , gpl 3.0 license.


organizations tend rally around shared license. example, opencores prefers lgpl or modified bsd license, freecores insists on gpl, open hardware foundation promotes copyleft or other permissive licenses , open graphics project uses variety of licenses, including mit license, gpl, , proprietary license, , balloon project wrote own license.








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