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Open source hardware licenses

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Do you make hardware? Dabble with designing electronics? Open source hardware licenses considerations and thought starters...

What is not Open Source Hardware
Why "non-commercial" is a "non-good" idea for your project
"I'm afraid that it will get copied by a large conglomerate and sold cheaply to people!
"I'm afraid my project will be used by some big company without proper credit or attribution!"
I would like to sell my project as a product and I'm scared of someone becoming a competitor!
If you keep your project "non-commercial" it is less likely to succeed and evolve!

Open source hardware licenses - Link.

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What is open source hardware? - Link.

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Posted by: paulsw on August 25, 2007 at 10:14 PM

There is a very interesting discussion about Open Hardware and how it relates to the (less open than you thought) Arduino over at the Arduino Forum.

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1184102866;start=all

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