[Discuss] Publish OSHW with CC0?

Antoine, as a contact of a free smallwindturbine project smallwindturbineproj.contactor at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 07:41:45 UTC 2014


> to release an electronics device

My understanding is: as your friend wants a tangible things and its
upstream and downstream manufacturing chain to be into public domain
(or equivalent), then, a CC licence can not really match.

>From my understanding, using a open licence specially designed for
tangible things would be preferable: TAPR or CERN-OHL.

Don't you think ?

Freely,

Antoine

2014-10-30 6:13 UTC+01:00, Eric Thompson <eric at lowvoltagelabs.com>:
> I don't recall exactly what he said during the interview but I seem to
> remember that Ian from Dangerous Prototypes talked about this during an
> interview on The Amp Hour podcast.
>
> If you look at the Bus Pirate documentation, it lists the PCB art and
> Firmware as CC-0.
> http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate#License
>
> - Eric
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Drew Fustini <pdp7pdp7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, a friend at my hackerspace here in Chicago wants to release an
>> electronics device he's designed as OSHW.  It is a pure analog system
>> with no firmware.
>>
>> He doesn't care about attribution, commercial use, derivatives or
>> copyleft restrictions.   He said he basically wants to make the design
>> public domain.  My understanding is that Creative Commons CC0 is
>> preferable to public domain.
>>
>> Anyone have thoughts on releasing hardware designs as CC0?
>> Is there are better option given he doesn't want to reserve any rights?
>>
>> thanks!
>> drew
>> http://keybase.io/pdp7
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