[Discuss] A guide to open source hardware

[Antoine C.]

Hi Jeremy.

According to the state of licences available for openness applied to
things made with atoms (see FSF and OSHWA licences advices), I would
recommend to add to your "best practices", the followings:
  # publish the documentation *in a pedagogic form* (then, it will be
compliant with copyright law, even if some parts are patentable - this,
for French law is really one of key practice)
  # publish in a full compliance way (ID of the people, legal ability to
do it, ...), across one-of-the-best-you-can-find official public
publication way (or equivalent), the entire development process all
along the development process, including any reasoning, drafts, ...
  # never forget that your publication might be claimed by some else,
and you should be really sure about what you publish: if the thing you
publish includes a functional part, then it might be patentable by you
or by some one else, in the past or in the future; if the thing you
publish does not include any functional patentable part, then it will
have *no effect* on manufacturings coming from this thing you published,
except if you are a professional and if the downstream openness
conditions are included into a contract you have with an other
professional part.

In that ways, people might have better chance to publish things correctly.

Love and Peace,
Freely,
Antoine C.

Le 22/07/2016 09:31, Bonvoisin, Jeremy a écrit :
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> Hi,
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> I’m a researcher at the Technical University Berlin where we have a
> newly started French-German research project on open source hardware
> <http://130.149.46.183/wiki/index.php/OPEN%21_Methods_and_tools_for_community-based_product_development>.
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> I would like to share with you a document we made to summarize the
> best practices we observed through the analysis of a large number of
> open source hardware projects. The page is named “a guide to open
> source hardware
> <http://130.149.46.183/wiki/index.php/A_guide_to_Open_Source_Hardware>” and
> attempts giving practical guidance regarding documentation of open
> source hardware products, especially for mechanic products. This is
> some sort of extension of the “Best Practices of Open Source Hardware
> 1.0 <http://www.oshwa.org/sharing-best-practices/>” of the OSHWA.
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> I would be glad to get your impressions, feedback, critics or even
> propositions for further development of this document.
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> I am also open for merging this document with existing initiatives,
> for example if there are discussions about a second version of the
> “best practices” of the OSHWA.
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> Thanks in advance for your reactions!
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> Best regards,
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> Jérémy Bonvoisin
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> Dr. Jérémy Bonvoisin
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> Ingénieur esiea – Research engineer
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> Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Fabrikbetrieb - IWF
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> Fachgebiet Industrielle Informationstechnik
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> Technische Universität Berlin
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> Mail: jeremy.bonvoisin at tu-berlin.de <mailto:jeremy.bonvoisin at tu-berlin.de>
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> Tel.: +49 (0)30 39006 358 <tel:%2B49%20%280%2930%2039006%20358>
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