CERN Launches Open Hardware Initiative

sfcrazy writes "CERN has launched version 1.1 of the Open Hardware License (OHL), a legal framework to facilitate knowledge exchange across the electronic design community. The alpha version was launched four months ago. In the spirit of knowledge and technology dissemination, the CERN OHL was created to govern the use, copying, modification and distribution of hardware design documentation, and the manufacture and distribution of products."

Re:I want hardware, not a license

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CERN and others have already designed Open Hardware in the OHR. See for example the SPEC board http://www.ohwr.org/projects/spec/wiki [ohwr.org] the 100 Ms/s ADC mezzanine http://www.ohwr.org/projects/fmc-adc-100m14b4cha/wiki [ohwr.org] and the Rhino http://www.ohwr.org/projects/rhino-hardware-01/wiki [ohwr.org]. All of these, and others, you can buy from a number of vendors, and more are in the pipeline. Have a look at the OHR projects page: http://www.ohwr.org/projects [ohwr.org]