Difference between revisions of "Team:Cambridge-JIC/Practices"
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<h2> CERN OHL </h2> | <h2> CERN OHL </h2> | ||
− | <p>The CERN OHL was developed to do for hardware what the General Public License (GPL) did for software, and is available for free download | + | <p>The CERN OHL was developed to do for hardware what the General Public License (GPL) did for software, and is available for free download (1). In 2009, scientists in the community at CERN began to create the Open Hardware Repository: “a place on the web for electronics designers at experimental physics facilities to collaborate on open hardware designs, much in the philosophy of the free software movement” [10].</p> |
<p>The fundamental principals of the CERN OHL are: | <p>The fundamental principals of the CERN OHL are: | ||
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<h2> TAPR OHL </h2> | <h2> TAPR OHL </h2> | ||
+ | <p>The TAPR OHL was developed by Tucson Amateur Packet Radio, and like the CERN OHL was created to extend the success of OSS licenses (2). It is available for anyone to use, and can be downloaded directly from their website(3) [12]. Just like the CERN OHL it is a Copyleft or ‘viral’ license: the terms applied to one product are propagated to all downstream products. In short, this means that once a product is made open-source, it and all it’s modifications remain accessible to the community.</p> | ||
+ | <p>The key premises of the TAPR OHL are outlined below, as described by the official website [12]:</p> | ||
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+ | <li><p>Products can be used for any legal purpose</p></li> | ||
+ | <li><p>Unmodified documentation can be released, but it must be in the form of the entire package</p></li> | ||
+ | <li><p>Products can be commercially released as long as the documentation is also freely released, or is available for free for up to 3 years</p></li> | ||
+ | <li><p>All modifications must be released under the OHL</p></li> | ||
+ | <li><p>All modifications must be well documented, and attempts made to notify the designers of the original product</p></li> | ||
+ | </ol> | ||
+ | <p>Overall, the above requirements ensure that nobody is denied the rights to access the product and its documentation, including all downstream versions.</p> | ||
+ | <p>For more information on TAPR licensing procedures, see here</p> | ||
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