[Discuss] Some news from CERN

Tue Jul 9 16:14:03 UTC 2013

After reading your comment I figured there's no reason to innovate on
this one, so I went to the GPL license text, and they use the term
"designated place", with no definition for it. Hmm, does this sound
better or more clear?

The CERN OHL draft reads "... the Licensee shall make the modified
Documentation available from a Documentation Location such that it can
be easily located by an original Licensor..." Maybe we could exclude
your library example by saying "easily located and accessed" instead of
just "easily located"?

Thanks,

Javier

On 07/09/2013 05:58 PM, David A. Mellis wrote:
> Thanks for the update!
> 
> One comment on the license (and apologies if this has been discussed on
> the CERN OHL list already): I like the idea of requiring licensees to
> make their modifications publicly available (as opposed to explicitly
> notifying / sending them to the original licensor) but the definition of
> "documentation location" seems overly vague. For example, "publicly
> accessible" sounds like it would include, say, placing a copy of the
> modified documentation on a USB key in my local library -- which is
> technically accessible to anyone but in practice would be very
> inconvenient. 
> 
> Is there a more specific definition that might make sense here?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Javier Serrano <Javier.Serrano at cern.ch
> <mailto:Javier.Serrano at cern.ch>> wrote:
> 
>     Dear all,
> 
>     Here are some news from the Open Source Hardware efforts at CERN:
> 
> 
>     CERN Open Hardware Licence
>     --------------------------
> 
>     We are quite close to the publication of version 1.2 of the licence.
>     There is a draft [1] open for comments, and discussions in the CERN OHL
>     mailing list [2] are steadily converging. Our aim is to publish it
>     towards the end of this month. The current draft includes ideas from a
>     recent article [3] which was posted here, and the author himself has
>     participated in the discussions. Feel free to join the mailing list if
>     you would like to participate as well.
> 
> 
>     ICALEPCS Pre-Conference Open Hardware Workshop
>     ----------------------------------------------
> 
>     This is a workshop under the umbrella of ICALEPCS, which is a biennial
>     conference on controls and data acquisition for big Physics facilities,
>     like particle accelerators, telescopes, etc. We did one in 2011 and it
>     was very successful, so we're doing another one in San Francisco in
>     October this year. It's very informal. Details can be found in the
>     workshop page [4]. Registration [5] is now open, and everyone is very
>     welcome. One of the big themes this year will be FOSS tools for
>     developing OSHW. Which takes me to...
> 
> 
>     Kicad
>     -----
> 
>     Our contribution to Kicad [6] is now moving forward full-steam, even if
>     our steam is limited. We just submitted a new View component [7] for
>     review. The aim is to enable Kicad to display complex PCBs without
>     significant performance problems. Our test PCB is 12 layers. If this is
>     approved, we will move on to a very important work package: the Tool
>     Framework [8]. The idea is to make Kicad modular enough so that people
>     who want to add functionality to it don't have to touch its guts.
> 
>     We liaised with CERN's Knowledge Transfer group to start raising funds
>     for Kicad development, through the "CERN and Society" initiative [9].
>     Our first donation came from Arduino [10], which is of course a great
>     honour, and we already put the money to produce code, mostly on
>     improving the footprint library table support in the layout editor. I
>     now intend to address potential donors in the education sector. If you
>     are involved with education and think Kicad could play an important role
>     there, please contact me off-list. In fact, please contact me if you
>     have any ideas for fund raising! :)
> 
>     If the fund raising for Kicad proves effective and to the extent my time
>     allows, I would like to start a similar effort to fund development for
>     the Icarus Verilog simulator [11]. We have contributed to adding some
>     VHDL and SystemVerilog support (to the existing Verilog support) in the
>     past, with the aim of having a good FOSS tool for mixed-language
>     simulation, but there is still quite some work to be done.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Javier
> 
>     [1] http://www.ohwr.org/documents/264
>     [2] http://lists.ohwr.org/sympa/info/cernohl
>     [3]
>     http://jipel.law.nyu.edu/2013/04/three-dimensional-printing-and-open-source-hardware/
>     [4] http://www.ohwr.org/projects/ohr-meta/wiki/OHW2013
>     [5] http://www.cvent.com/d/6cq5hx
>     [6] http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cern-kicad/wiki
>     [7]
>     http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cern-kicad/wiki/WorkPackages#3-View-component
>     [8]
>     http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cern-kicad/wiki/WorkPackages#5-Tool-framework
>     [9] http://cernandsociety.web.cern.ch/technology/kicad-development
>     [10] http://blog.arduino.cc/2013/06/10/arduino-donations-and-values/
>     [11] http://iverilog.icarus.com/
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