There are copyright-like (but not copyright) laws that apply to HW designs in the US. Might look at the GPL v3 for appropriate language that covers these laws; the explicit v3 language is ""Copyright" also means copyright-like laws that apply to other kinds of works, such as semiconductor masks."
Luis On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Jonathan Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg London wrote: >> If there were a definition for Open Hardware, >> it would be something like: >> >> A design, usually in the form of some copyrightable work, >> which describes a physical object in sufficient detail that >> the device can be constructed from the design. > > Do people generally agree that a brief statement like this (for > 'hardware') coupled with the Open Knowledge Definition (for 'open', see > opendefinition.org) could constitute a definition for open hardware? > > Is there any other angle we'd like to cover? > > Jonathan > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
