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Paul Campbell  
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 More options Oct 15 2012, 9:25 pm
From: Paul Campbell <p...@taniwha.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:25:10 +1300
Local: Mon, Oct 15 2012 9:25 pm
Subject: Re: [DSpace] Open Source Hardware Licenses
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:11:24 David Quinn wrote:

> > Does anyone have any experience open sourcing a hardware platform?

> > We're working an interesting solar hot water panel design and are keen to
> > hack the traditional patent IP mess and business models to get the design
> > into the hands of makers globally … and are some ways down this track.>

> > Key piece is to open source the hardware.

> > I've been chatting with our IP guy. After sitting through his rant
> > (actually started reciting Adam Smith to me - funny - but he is american)
> > and the potential, apparently, that capitalism may very well end as a
> > result of this action. Perhaps only his $600/hr fees. The conclusion is
> > that it is relatively simple, and much like selecting a creative commons
> > license.>

> > Has anyone done this? Happy to shout the coffee to pick your brains on
> > this.

For my early designs (before "open source" was even a word) I just declared
designs to be in the public domain, people didn't know what to make of them.

Brian and I chose TAPR for the board for his robot
http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html

I used GPL2 for the Makerspace robot project (and lgpl for the source I
released for it)

My next OSHW project (a project for BurningMan) will probably also be GPL  

I've chosen GPL for these largely because I'm lazy, not out of some great
personal preference one way or the other.

Also check out http://www.oshwa.org/

        Paul


 
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