[hpsdr] Open Hardware License Law Review Article

[Kevin Wheatley]

Thanks for sharing this John, I didn't fall asleep, and strangely I  
found your paper an entertaining read :)
Without this framework the HPSDR community wouldn't have made it this  
far, thank you.

73's
Kevin

On 13 Sep 2009, at 16:20, John Ackermann wrote:

> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>
> Some of you know that we created the TAPR Open Hardware License  
> (OHL) primarily at the request of the HPSDR developers.  It was  
> intended to foster the kind of community around open hardware  
> development that exists in the free and open source software world.
>
> I was invited to write an article for the University of Dayton Law  
> Review about the legal basis for open source hardware licensing,  
> which is quite a bit more complicated than for software.  That  
> article has finally been published, and I have a link to it at:
>
> http://www.febo.com/law/ 
> Ackermann_Open_Source_Hardware_Article_2009.pdf
>
> To my knowledge, the OHL is the first general-purpose license for  
> open source hardware, and this is the first published legal analysis  
> of open source hardware licensing.
>
> I wanted to give lawyers some idea of what's involved in creating a  
> circuit-board-based electronic design, and I devote several pages to  
> explaining the process.  As a result, this may be the only law  
> review article ever to include a schematic diagram!
>
> If nothing else, it should be a good cure for insomnia...
>
> John
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