[Discuss] Free Software Foundation's "Respects Your Freedom hardware product certification"

[Hanspeter Portner]

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I just stumbled across the "Respects Your Freedom hardware product
certification" [1] by the Free Software Foundation.
I was agnostic about that until now. I thought I would post it here if
somebody should be interested.

I think it is an interesting idea to actually have someone (independent,
non-profit) check whether your hardware/firmware is
free (or falsly claimed to be...).

Compared to the OSH definition [4], it does not seem to define any
criteria for the hardware design to be open, but puts its focus
on shipped firmware/software. The latter (in contrast to the OSH
definition) must be free to pass the certification criteria [2].

There is already some certified hardware out there [3].

[1] http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom
[2] http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/criteria
[3] http://ryf.fsf.org/
[4] http://www.oshwa.org/definition/

Hanspeter
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