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− | <h2> Viral Licenses </h2> | + | <h2> Copyleft or Viral Licenses </h2> |
+ | <p>The phenomenon of OSH is in its infancy, and as a result there are only a handful of potential options when choosing an appropriate license. Many of these are Copyleft or ‘viral’ licenses.</p> | ||
+ | <p>Features of viral licenses:</p> | ||
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+ | <li><p>Any derivatives must be licensed under the same conditions as the original</p></li> | ||
+ | <li><p>Once licensed, all derivatives will be fully accessible forever</p></li> | ||
+ | <li><p>Reduced likelihood of any derivatives being commercialised compared to Permissive licenses, and no chance of them being made proprietary</p></li> | ||
+ | <li><p>Increased issues of license compatibility compared to Permissive licenses. This could be a problem if a new license is released later in time that may be more appropriate</p></li> | ||
+ | </ul> | ||
+ | <p>One of the most widespread is the Creative Commons(6) Attribution-ShareAlike license (Fig. 3, Fig. 4). This is however not specifically designed for OSH, and was instead developed for works of art such as music and designs, as well as software [2]. More comprehensive and hardware-specific licenses have been created, and here the authors will focus on two of them: the CERN OHL and the TAPR OHL.</p> | ||
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