[Discuss] Attribution on physical hardware?

[Drew Fustini]

thanks alicia & everyone else for the comments.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 7:38 PM, alicia <amgibb at gmail.com> wrote:
> I attempted to answer some of the questions around attribution in Chapter 6
> of Building Open Source Hardware. I attached it here (feel free to
> distribute - it's cc-by-sa).
>
> From my perspective, it's great to advertise directly on the product, but
> there are limits of what you can do in the physical world, with a physical
> board footprint. If there's no room to list attribution, I think the next
> best thing is the product page, and always in the README file in addition to
> the board / website. That is where when in doubt people will look for
> licensing and any specifications to the license being made, such as
> requirements to advertise on the product.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Ben Gray <ben at mearm.io> wrote:
>>
>> I've always taken Adafruit's text as that (for example)
>>
>> "PCB files for the Adafruit Particle/Spark Neopixel Ring
>>
>> For more details, check out the product page at
>>
>> https://www.adafruit.com/product/2268
>>
>> Adafruit invests time and resources providing this open source design,
>> please support Adafruit and open-source hardware by purchasing products from
>> Adafruit!
>>
>> Designed by Adafruit Industries. Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike
>> license, check license.txt for more information All text above must be
>> included in any redistribution"
>>
>>
>> If that's how it's meant I don't know.
>>
>>
>> I tend to put attributions on physical products anyway. Like on this
>> http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:167194 Otherwise when is it going to be
>> read?
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Ben Gray
>> blog.mearm.io
>> @MeArmIO
>> @phenoptix
>>
>> On 9 September 2015 at 21:16, Drew Fustini <pdp7pdp7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> oops, adding a Subject:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Drew Fustini <pdp7pdp7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > I was just reading this thread on the arm-netbook mailing list:
>>> >
>>> >   [Arm-netbook] How much to design A20 board?
>>> >
>>> > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2015-September/010660.html
>>> >
>>> > and came across this viewpoint:
>>> >
>>> >   "attribution clauses require you to advertise *on the product*."
>>> >
>>> > I've never considered that before.  Anyone have thoughts about if the
>>> > physical piece of hardware based on CC-BY-SA designs needs to have
>>> > attribution inscribed on it?
>>> >
>>> > thanks,
>>> > drew
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