OSE License

Documentation Copyright

See Copyright All content is Dual Licensed:

This work is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

and:

GNU Free Documentation License 1.2, November 2002

  Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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Philosophy

OSE is a non-governmental organization dedicated to the active development of open source resilient communities and economies. We are moved to develop effective open source tools of production by our goal of creating post-scarcity economies. A post-scarcity economy converts local, nonstrategic resources effectively and reliably into a technologically advanced way of life, while producing the surplus needed to fuel progress and evolution in a community. We believe that freeing humans to address their own physical needs in this way can open up time and energy for other endeavors, and that this freedom will be beneficial at all levels, from individuals to societies.

We are working with an open source philosophy because we would like to see the technologies we are developing replicated by a diversity of producers. We aim to give economic power to many people and see non-monopolistic production by a large number of stakeholders. We would like not only to give people access to the technologies, but access to the information needed to build, redesign, modify, and improve them. Further, we would like to share open source business models, the knowledge and plans for how to use these technologies to produce a livelihood.

Licence

We contribute all of our work into the (public domain)?? in the name of unrestricted access to information. We strongly encourage those making use of this information to contribute their improvements and business models back to the commons. However, we cannot require it because we do not believe in coercion, even if it is contractual. We have produced our designs by standing on the shoulders of giants before us, and do not claim any of our work to be original. We hope to attract others who are motivated to share their work freely by the human spirit of innovation and progress.

We are developing an OSE Label to verify products having the desirable features promoted by OSE and detailed in the OSE Specifications. Along with a logo for each product, the OSE Label is intended to provide transparent documentation. The qualities documented on the label include:

• Localization of production
• Availability of documentation (plans, fabrication procedure, open business model, user manual, product release CD)
• Lifetime design (design for disassembly, modularity, interchangeability of parts)
• Systems design
• Ecological soundness

Any producer able to meet OSE Specifications to a degree equivalent or greater than our own is welcome to use the OSE Label. The OSE Label will be administered by OSE or a collaborating organization. We retain trademark rights.

All hacker spaces are authorized resellers of our products. We want these other allied efforts to earn from our efforts. The details will be negotiated on a case by case basis, so please contact us.

See also http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/open-source-hardware-draft - with which we are largely in agreement.