FYI: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/group_interview_graphic_view_open_hardware_movement_part_2_technical_and_social_issues
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Jonathan Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
