[Discuss] Publish OSHW with CC0?

[alicia]

For what it's worth, we did have a discussion around this point involving
lawyers from the EFF. The blog post of what was recommended that day lives
here:
http://www.oshwa.org/2013/12/05/open-hardware-legal-meetup-nyu-nov-11/
It was very much centered around fitting within the legal system that
already exists.

What Andrew infers is true, they are willing to help remove a stupid
patent, for example, but don't necessarily think on oshw legal matters for
us.

Alicia


On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Andrew Katz <Andrew.Katz at moorcrofts.com>
wrote:

> Hi Javier
>
> > On 11/05/2014 03:43 PM, Andrew Katz wrote:
> > > How do you determine which objects are subject to that compulsion, and
> > which aren’t?
> >
> > Very naively, I would say "those whose designer wished so." There would
> be
> > nothing forcing people to build and use those objects, but if they did,
> they'd
> > need to comply with the license.
> Indeed - so there would need to be an underlying IPR which needs to be
> licensed in the first place, and then we're back to questions of how easy
> it should be to obtain that IPR, and how to prevent it from being misused
> by proprietary companies...
>
> >Anyway, I acknowledge this is a very complex
> > debate and I fully see your and Michael's points. In fact, your concerns
> are
> > similar to mine: you fear we end up sharing less in our effort to share
> more. I
> > fear that we are already in that situation to some extent, because we
> are using
> > (and therefore
> > strengthening) the same IPRs other people use to prevent more sharing.
> > You both have more experience and knowledge on the (im)possibility of
> > creating a difficult-to-pervert IPR, so I'll go with you on that.
>
> Yes indeed. I'm really glad this is being aired (and it's nice to be in an
> internet conversation which is civilised!), but it's a topic that comes up
> with reasonable regularity. I'm still (as you know) far from convinced that
> it's worth putting much effort in trying to put together a more
> comprehensive hardware copyleft regime, until (unless) we are sure that, on
> balance, the good outweighs the evil. By saying " you fear we end up
> sharing less in our effort to share more" you’ve encapsulated the issue
> much more neatly than I could!
>
> Best
>
> Andrew
>
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