1. Open Hardware Licensing
How do we go about licensing?
Andrew Katz, Moorcrofts LLP

2. Open Hardware Projects
Hyrban hydrogen car (riversimple.com)

3. Open Hardware Projects
Protei (protei.org)

4. Open Hardware Projects
Open relief drone (openrelief.org)

5. Open Hardware projects
Looking for a
Submarine
Rocket
Bicycle?

6. Open Hardware Projects
RISC Processor core licensing
Solderpad
Networking hardware
K80Z

7. What is Open (Source) Hardware?
OHandA Four Freedoms:
Freedom 0: The freedom to use the device for any purpose.
Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the device works and change it to make it to do what you wish. Access to the complete design is precondition to this.
Freedom 2: Redistribute the device and/or design (remanufacture).
Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the device and/or design, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits. Access to the complete design is precondition to this.

8. Why do we need a licence?
A licence is permission to do what would otherwise be illegal

9. What might be illegal Copying a design
Manufacturing an article from a design
Copying one article to make another article
Making an article which infringes a patent or registered design

10. What do people want from a licence?
Ability to use design
Ability to prevent others from misusing a design

11. Misusing a design? Proprietary hardware Misusing = not paying
Open Source Hardware
Misusing = not attributing
(sometimes) =not sharing

12. A licence grants permission...
...but subject to conditions

13. Types of Condition Retain copyright notices, disclaimers etc
Must release derivatives under the same licence
Copyleft/Share Alike
Permissive/Academic

14. Some problems with copyleft hardware licences
IPR impinges on software more frequently than hardware
The boundary problem
The “reverse engineering” gap
There can be only one

15. What's wrong with existing licences?
Creative commons – ok for documentation only
GPL – misleading. We don't know what a “derivative work” is for hardware. Distribution doesn't require IPR licence.
Apache – not a lot. Just needs to reference other IPRs (e.g. design rights, database right)

16. Suitable licences Permissive – Solderpad Licence Copyleft – CERN OHL
Strong copyleft – TAPR (patents)

17. Where are we now? CERN – we're discussing v1.2 Draft
Solderpad – projects are considering it
We're also looking at a permissive version of CERN
We're talking about a new version of TAPR

18. Politics (in licensing, at least)
We're all getting on just fine!
John Ackerman (TAPR)
Myriam Ayass/Javier Serrano (CERN)
Solderpad/APACHE

19. Changes to CERN No reporting back requirement
No uniform design identifier :-(
Compatibility with TAPR :-)
Removal of choice of law provisions :-)

20. Practical discussions?
How prescriptive should we be as to what is labelled “Open Hardware”?
Should we distinguish 'between open hardware' and 'open source hardware'?
How can this be policed?
Eli Greenbaum – 3d printing design references (see upcoming article in NYU Journal of Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law for more information)

21. Labelling Ideas
(Tom Igoe)
OHANDA

22. Where are the discussions happening?
Open Hardware
CERN (Open hardware repository)
Solderpad
OHANDA
OSHUG
Open hardware mailing list
Open hardware summit mailing list

23. Links http://solderpad.org/licenses/