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Re: A dedicated licence for open-source hardware: CERN OHL approved by OSI

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Post by officialchicken » Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 2:52 PM UTC

analognoise wrote: post #6

maximente wrote: post #2

right on - now take this to some DARPA PMs, convince them of the national security risk inherent in closed hardware that almost always comes from abroad and is for all sorts of military/infrastructure things. if they end up making a program, you'll have a fairly solid if not bureaucratic funding to bootstrap your puri.sm analog.

I would pay money to watch some naive FOSS enthusiast trying to pitch to a DARPA PM about technology.

After watching this[0], please feel free to make a donation to any FOSS organization of your choosing such as the Open Source Initiative[1]. You can learn more at the DARPA Open Government website[2].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UF56umERjs&list=PL6wMum5UsY...

[1] https://opensource.org/

[2] https://open.defense.gov/Initiatives/DARPA-Open-Catalog/

Re: A dedicated licence for open-source hardware: CERN OHL approved by OSI

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Post by officialchicken » Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 3:00 PM UTC

desmap wrote: post #3

There are three variants and long PDFs, anyone has a summary of those?

RTFM/from the article...

>CERN ended up with three variants. There is a strong reciprocal licence (CERN-OHL-S), which is for designs that remain free along with all their derivatives, a copyleft principle similar to GPL.

>There is a weak reciprocal licence where the design can be used as a component in other designs without the whole becoming open source, but if the design of the component is modified, that must be shared back (CERN-OHL-W). And there is a permissive licence, CERN-OHL-P, which lets users mix the design freely with proprietary designs provided it is acknowledged, similar to Apache 2.0 in the software world.

Re: A dedicated licence for open-source hardware: CERN OHL approved by OSI

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Post by analognoise » Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 4:40 PM UTC

officialchicken wrote: post #21

analognoise wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would pay money to watch some naive FOSS enthusiast trying to pitch to a DARPA PM about technology.

After watching this[0], please feel free to make a donation to any FOSS organization of your choosing such as the Open Source Initiative[1]. You can learn more at the DARPA Open Government website[2]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UF56umERjs&list=PL6wMum5UsY... [1] https://opensource.org/ [2] https://open.defense.gov/Initiatives/DARPA-Open-Catalog/

Woosh!

...the FOSS enthusiast would have to be naive to think DARPA wasn't aware of FOSS and had FOSS efforts. But more importantly -

People in defense track everything - down to the wafer. Going "have you tried FOSS, you could verify everything!" To someone in an industry where we...already verify everything...would be hilarious.