The international collaboration of Cern has an Open Hardware License, open source license for hardware similar to the gpl, is renewed. Under the new license can now also projects outside the labs of colleagues.
Cern, a consortium of twenty European countries, including the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, switzerland founded, has version 1.1 of the Open Hardware License published. The Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire has been a long-time advocate of open source software, but introduced in march, the first ‘alpha’version of the Open Hardware License, or OHL. The corresponding Open Hardware Repository should be a repository for open-source hardwareprojecten. The initial version, however, was almost exclusively applicable to laboratory equipment, such as that for the LHC is used.
The new version, OHL 1.1, however, is more broadly deployable and sets the OHR open for a wider audience. In the repository may be about forty hardware-projects found to be under a gpl-like construction may be used. That means that derivatives of the hardware designs under the same license. The licenses must have the ‘source code’ of hardware, including charts, design of pcb’s or chips and supporting materials contain.
On softwaregebied was the Cern responsible for the development of the www and it has its own Linux distribution. The mascot and logo of the Open Hardware Repository will also at a wide audience, a moment of recognition induce.
