CERN's Open Hardware License v1.1 [LWN.net]

CERN has announced the release of version 1.1 of its Open Hardware License. "'For us, the drive towards open hardware was largely motivated by well-intentioned envy of our colleagues who develop Linux device-drivers,' said Javier Serrano, an engineer at CERN's Beams Department and the founder of the OHR. 'They are part of a very large community of designers who share their knowledge and time in order to come up with the best possible operating system. We felt that there was no intrinsic reason why hardware development should be any different.'" CERN also maintains the Open Hardware Repository as a collecting point for free hardware designs.

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