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'''For Hardware'''
'''For Hardware'''


Allpy one of these licenses to the hardware, CAD files, schematics, PCB's etc.
Apply one of these licenses to the hardware, CAD files, schematics, PCB's etc.
*Go to [http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/apply-oshw-definition/ Open Source Hardware] and put the logo on your hardware, hardware designs, schematics, etc and provide some kind of license file with it.  
*Go to [http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/apply-oshw-definition/ Open Source Hardware] and put the logo on your hardware, hardware designs, schematics, etc and provide some kind of license file with it.  
*Go to [http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cernohl/wiki CERN Open Hardware License] and follow the instructions.
*Go to [http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cernohl/wiki CERN Open Hardware License] and follow the instructions.

Revision as of 10:27, 26 October 2011

Watch this video for a deeper understanding of the below licenses.

These are general guidelines not instructions. The below licenses can be used in many ways on different materials. Read them to understand how.

For Hardware

Apply one of these licenses to the hardware, CAD files, schematics, PCB's etc.


For Software, Code, Music and Video

  • Creative Commons Craft your own license, you choose what attributes you want to have associated with it.
  • GPL Once under GPL derivatives must remain under GPL.
  • FreeBSD Once under FreeBSD, derivative licences can be changed.


Public Domain

  • You can declared something into the Public Domain by providing a legal statement with it that states so. Once in the Public Domain it cannot be copy righted.