Presented by Andrew Katz at WOSH - Week of Open Source Hardware
The CERN Open Hardware Licence has proved popular for electronics, and the current draft of version 2 aims to widen its appeal by addressing issues raised by developers of ASICs and FPGAs, as well as other forms of hardware. It simplifies and clarifies previous versions, and introduces weak reciprocal (copyleft) and permissive variants. By introducing the concept of an "available component" it clarifies the scope of the copyleft effect, and the new version may even provide a solution to some tricky licensing problems which are starting to arise in the software domain (such as containerisation).
Week of Open Source Hardware - a FOSSi Foundation Event: https://fossi-foundation.org/wosh
