Open Source Hardware Projects, 2009

Posted by kdawson on Saturday December 12, 2009 @10:40AM from the hard-way dept.

ptorrone writes "MAKE's yearly open source hardware guide is now online with over 125 projects in 19 categories. The creators of all of these projects have decided to publish completely all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings, and 'board' files to recreate the hardware. They also allow any use, including commercial. In other words, you can make a business making and selling any of these objects. This is similar to open source software like Linux, but hardware-centric."

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Re:No by Bruce+Perens · 2009-12-12 11:58 · Score: 4, Informative

GPL 3 clearly allows commercial use, and is indeed one of the best licenses to use with dual licensing, which is one of the very few proven business methods for Open Source / Free Software.
A lot of people confuse "use" with "derivative works". Use means run the program.

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Bruce Perens.