Open Hardware?
Open Hardware?
Posted Nov 5, 2024 14:48 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: Open Hardware? by dvrabel
Parent article: The OpenWrt One system
Open in what sense? The designs have been posted under free licenses and are linked in the article; were you thinking of something else?
Posted Nov 5, 2024 19:45 UTC (Tue)
by dvrabel (subscriber, #9500)
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I don't see any licensing information for the provided schematics, the kicad project file is missing, and there are no PCB design files.
Posted Nov 6, 2024 7:46 UTC (Wed)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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What licence needs to be provided? A copyright licence is irrelevant, as is a trademark licence. The problem is patents, which if they don't have any, they can't licence them.
And - genuine question - did they use kicad? Do they even HAVE a kicad file?
And lastly, is this highlighting the difference between "Open" and "Free"? What you're demanding seems to me to fall clearly within the realms of "Free", which is not "permitted to freely create and distribute derivative works".
"Open" is "you are free to copy my work output". "Free" is "I am obligated to provide my work source". This is clearly "Open".
Cheers,
Open Hardware?
Open Hardware?
Wol