https://silicone.homelinux.org/tags/licence/ Recent content in licence on Silicone's web Hugo fr Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:36:50 +0100 https://silicone.homelinux.org/2010/08/02/open-source-hardware/ Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:46:01 +0100 https://silicone.homelinux.org/2010/08/02/open-source-hardware/ <p>I’m fan of <a href="http://www.fsf.org/">free software</a>, I’m also a Micro-electronic engineer, sometimes I wish I could apply the free software philosophy to some hardware projects.</p> <p>Well I could just applying some nice licence to some design and publish it. For hacking this works, just look at <a href="http://www.arduino.cc/">Arduino</a>‘s success !</p> <p>And there are plenty of other examples :</p> <ul> <li>Here is a list published end 2008 by makezine.com: <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/_draft_open_source_hardwa.html">Open source hardware 2008 – The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2008</a></li> <li>I also like the <a href="http://www.adafruit.com/blog/about/">adafruit.com</a> and <a href="http://www.ladyada.net/about.html">ladyada.net</a> approach. One site is commercial and selling the open source projects described on the other.</li> </ul> <p>I think one great part of the success is related to the fact that you can do it yourself.</p> <p>Now if you consider bigger projects like FPGA/ASIC design, it seams harder, well yes you loose the ‘do-it-yourself’ fun, and you compete with big companies, but still there are some examples:</p> <ul> <li>sun’s <a href="http://www.opensparc.net/">OpenSPARC</a></li> <li><a href="http://opengraphics.org/">The Open Graphics Project</a></li> </ul> <p>Ok this is possible, now let’s go further, how do I choose my licence ?</p>