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Re: For Approval: Open Source Hardware License

by Rick Moen :: Rate this Message:

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Quoting Jamey Hicks (jamey.hicks@...):

> There are no OSI-approved licenses for open source hardware, so I am
> proposing this license.

My understanding is that OSI's licence approval process
(http://www.opensource.org/docs/certification_mark.html) is specifically
for _software_ licences.  That scope limitation came up previously when
people proposed documentation licences for certification; I suspect the
same logic applies here.

(I don't speak for OSI, however.)

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