Attila Kinali wrote:
Also OHF could do something to protect Traversals IP: give out certificates to open hardware friendly companies. This would be a good marker for people who would like to buy OH devices.
This is a *fantastic* idea. If we have a smart logo -- you know, like the "Designed for Windows" thing -- for people to display on their products...
We could host a document repository for hardware manufacturers to make their interface docs available through. If they release their docs to us under one of a number of "document release licenses" that we ask a friendly lawyer to draw up, they get to display a "OpenHardware Compliance" logo. N.b. they'd have to release the docs necessary to access the full functionality: a good example is FTDI USB to serial converter chips, where you can interface with them under Linux but you can't program their behaviour or access special high-speed functions.
This would be fantastic for Linux or BSD users, because just by looking at a box they'd be able to tell that a product will be likely to have reasonable support under their operating system.
This would be equally great for both free operating system developers and the hardware manufacturers, because there would be one centralized repository for developers to look when implementing support for a certified product, and the hardware manufacturers wouldn't get continually bombarded by impolite requests for docs (*cough* Theo *cough*).
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