[ohf-licenses] [open-hw] Classification of openhardware

[Greg London]

> I wonder what list members think of
> the notion of a 'definition' of open
> hardware which would give criteria
> for which licenses (or other legal
> tools) count as such.
>
> I suspect if we are largely talking
> about material that is copyrightable,

The hardware designs would be copyrightable.
The hardware manufactured from those designs
would fall outside of normal copyright law,
outside of normal copyleft licenses.

If there were a definition for Open Hardware,
it would be something like:

A design, usually in the form of some copyrightable work,
which describes a physical object in sufficient detail that
the device can be constructed from the design.

Or something like that.