Bryan Bishop <[email protected]> Sep 19 03:16PM -0500 ^<#13286c313bf5840c_digest_top> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bruce Perens <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:06 PM Subject: [OH Updates] TAPR meeting results To: [email protected] We had the TAPR meeting this weekend in Baltimore, after the Summit. TAPR will deprecate the Non-Commercial License and will immediately apply the Open Hardware License to new work funded by TAPR. We had previously used the Non-Commercial License to make sure we would recoup the investment in our first production run of the TAPR-funded http://openhpsdr.org/ boards. After that sold out, we applied the Open Hardware License. History in producing these boards shows that the NCL is not necessary to protect our revenue, and nobody ever turns the boards to add the OHL statement when it's time to do that. Boards after Hermes<http://openhpsdr.org/hermes.php>will include the OHL statement. Hermes will include the OHL statement in addendum, as the board has already been laid out. We had a short discussion of whether we should remove some of the requirements in the TAPR Open Hardware License in order to get more parties to use the TAPR license. This was countered by concern among the leadership about the rather low standard for "open" in the Open Hardware community in general right now. They pointed out: - Some of the things featured at the Summit don't meet the Open Hardware Definition. - Some companies that are thought to be leaders in Open Hardware predominantly make breakout boards for ICs, with little design investment in them. - A lot of things said to be open just have a PDF for the schematic, no modifiable design files, and no gerber files. So, the feeling at TAPR is that we should work to raise the standard for "open" in the community. We're going to invest some funds in promoting the high design investment projects which have to a great extent been overlooked. Thanks Bruce _______________________________________________ updates mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openhardwaresummit.org/listinfo.cgi/updates-openhardwaresummit.... -- - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507 John Griessen <[email protected]> Sep 19 05:19PM -0500 ^<#13286c313bf5840c_digest_top> On 09/19/2011 03:16 PM, Bryan Bishop forwarded: From: Bruce Perens <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:06 PM

investment in them. * A lot of things said to be open just have a PDF for the schematic, no modifiable design files, and no gerber files.

So, the feeling at TAPR is that we should work to raise the standard for "open" in the community.

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