Towards a Functional Licence for Open Hardware

Các tác giả

  • Andrew Katz Partner, Moorcrofts LLP

Từ khóa:

Open Hardware, Open Source Hardware, Licensing, Copyleft

Tóm tắt

Open hardware lags open source software in maturity. The two main licences assert a form of copyleft. This paper argues that copyleft's applicabilty to hardware is probelmatic, and concludes by proposing a simpler non-copyleft licence, based on Apache 2.0, for hardware.

Tiểu sử Tác giả

  • Andrew Katz, Partner, Moorcrofts LLP
    Andrew Katz studied Natural Sciences and Law at Cambridge University where he graduated with honours in 1989. In 1991 he was called to the Bar, and in 1993 requalified as a solicitor. He moonlighted as a programmer during his studies at Bar School, programming in Turbo Pascal. In 1991 he became an accredited NeXT developer. He has released software under the GPL. He is currently a partner at Moorcrofts LLP, a boutique law firm in England's Thames Valley and advises a wide range of businesses on free and open source related issues. He has lectured and published widely on the subject.

Tải xuống

Các tệp bổ sung

Đã Xuất bản

2012-05-31

Số

Tập 4 Số 1 (2012)

Chuyên mục

Articles

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Cách trích dẫn

Towards a Functional Licence for Open Hardware. (2012). Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society, 4(1), 41-62. https://www.jolts.world/index.php/jolts/article/view/69