Frederic Renet wrote: > And more generally how do we define open hardware ?
I've also been wondering about this. I recently joined this list and am catching up on discussions and projects in this area. I'm from the Open Knowledge Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2004 and dedicated to promoting open knowledge in all its forms. Our Open Knowledge Definition provides criteria for openness in knowledge (including copyrightable content and data). http://opendefinition.org/ http://opendefinition.org/1.0 We've also got a draft Open Service Definition: http://opendefinition.org/osd It would be great to work together towards a shared definition for Open Hardware, if such a definition would be useful. We've just bounced a few emails about this on our discuss list [1] and I've started dumping links on a page on our wiki: http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenHardware Perhaps a good way to proceed would be to gather together some examples to try to clarify what we mean by open hardware, and what any definition would do (if we need one)? I've carbon copied this message to our discuss list and the licenses list at the Open Hardware Foundation - who might also be interested in this discussion. Warm regards, Jonathan Gray The Open Knowledge Foundation [1] http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2008-May/000852.html _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
