<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Hi - I'd like to get the opinion of the list.  I recently came to realize that PrintrBot design files are licensed under CC BY-SA-NC (Non-Commercial).  For example: </span><a href="http://printrbot.com/2014/03/17/printrbot-jr-v2-files-are-available-non-commercial/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">http://printrbot.com/2014/03/17/printrbot-jr-v2-files-are-available-non-commercial/</a><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">This seems to disqualify it from being Open Source Hardware per the OSHWA definition:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<a href="http://www.oshwa.org/definition/" target="_blank">http://www.oshwa.org/definition/</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">"Open source hardware is hardware whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell the design or hardware based on that design." <div>
<br></div><div>The best practices go on to state:</div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><a href="http://www.oshwa.org/sharing-best-practices/" target="_blank">http://www.oshwa.org/sharing-best-practices/</a><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">"Note that the definition of open-source hardware specifies that you must allow modification and commercial re-use of your design, so avoid licenses with a no-derivatives or non-commercial clause."<br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">It would seem based on this that I shouldn't refer to Printrbot as Open Source Hardware.  Is it best to just describe it as CC BY-SA-NC?</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">thanks,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
drew</div></div>