<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>It would be great to have a certification that certifies that the _hardware_design_ is also open source.<br><br></div>If the platform is closed source and the firmware is open source is that a win for open source?  I say only partially.  It's a nice first step, but to be fully open source, the _hardware_design_ must also be open source.<br><br></div>What do you think?<br><br>Regards,<br></div>-Roy <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Hanspeter Portner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dev@open-music-kontrollers.ch" target="_blank">dev@open-music-kontrollers.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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I just stumbled across the "Respects Your Freedom hardware product<br>
certification" [1] by the Free Software Foundation.<br>
I was agnostic about that until now. I thought I would post it here if<br>
somebody should be interested.<br>
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I think it is an interesting idea to actually have someone (independent,<br>
non-profit) check whether your hardware/firmware is<br>
free (or falsly claimed to be...).<br>
<br>
Compared to the OSH definition [4], it does not seem to define any<br>
criteria for the hardware design to be open, but puts its focus<br>
on shipped firmware/software. The latter (in contrast to the OSH<br>
definition) must be free to pass the certification criteria [2].<br>
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There is already some certified hardware out there [3].<br>
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[1] <a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom" target="_blank">http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/criteria" target="_blank">http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/criteria</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://ryf.fsf.org/" target="_blank">http://ryf.fsf.org/</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://www.oshwa.org/definition/" target="_blank">http://www.oshwa.org/definition/</a><br>
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Hanspeter<br>
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