OSE License Requirements
Requirements
- Duration - permanent protection of IP
- Protection - protects users of technology, downstream users, developers, on-demand manufacturers and commercial producers
- Documentation - no requirements for sending updates/emails to any developers, but just providing a link to a repository. OSE must provide a clear link to its documentation from its website
- Specifications for documentation - we are currently in the process of refining the specific taxonomy for all documentation content in 2 categories: (1) absolutely mandatory content that any OSE-Licensed product must have to assure full replicability of a hardware artifact; (2) nice-to-have content that assists in continued development, but is not necessary to the replication per se
Documentation* - you promise to mail, provide through URL for 3 years, open file format with new and original documentation, must email out modification to all licensees
Summary of changes
New documentation in full
Original documentation in full
- OSE Documentation amendment- would requirement link to a single repository, making documentation accessible - original documentation is not necessary
On Demand Manufacturing* (ODM) - (Skype broke up) - protect people who print on demand, reassuring them that they are protected
- OSE’s ODM amendment - explicit allowance wrt ODM
Warranty - assures anyone who contributes will not be liable down the line Licensing - need to put “all later versions specified” otherwise anyone who remixes must keep it under the original license, so if it goes out at 1.0, if any new versions come out then they are under 1.0
CERN http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cernohl/wiki
End users - firms -protects firms that may want to control the patent later
Documentation - must distribute documentation, no format preference
On Demand Manufacturing - CERN says nothing
Warranty - assures anyone who contributes will not be liable down the line
Licensing - automatic