guidelines for the development and evaluation of licenses for Open Source Hardware
Open Hardware is “a term for tangible artifacts — machines, devices, or other physical things — whose design has been released to the public in such a way that anyone can make, modify, distribute, and use those things“.
Open Hardware is derivative: here a fork is the rule, not the exception.
overviews of Open Hardware can be found on Make Magazine’s Blog, MIT Technology Review, Computerworld, O’Reilly Radar.
Lists of existing Open Hardware projects can be found on the GOpen Hardware 2009 website, on the P2P Foundation website (here and here), on Make Magazine’s Blog, Open Innovation Projects and Open Knowledge Foundation.
4 possible levels of Openness in Open Hardware projects,
by SparkFun Electronics (USA)
Open Interface
Open Design
Open Implementation
Arduino
most popular Open Hardware project
open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software
ommercially produced
Most of Arduino official boards are manufactured by SmartProjects in Italy.
Arduino brand name
Gravitech (USA).
starting point
Closed
ecosystem
community
mature and simple
Creative Commons license
produce
redesign
sell boards
you just have to credit the original Arduino group and use the same CC license
without paying a license fee or even ask permission
the name Arduino
is trademarked
cheap and durable enough
two different business model
sharing open hardware to sell expertise, knowledge and custom services and projects around it;
hardware is becoming a commodity
selling the hardware but trying to keep ahead of competition with better products
companies that are selling open source hardware
the open source hardware community to reach $ 1 billion by 2015
Non-profit public laboratory
This lab offers membership fees with each category having different privileges
This is how they are handling accountability, in one sense. https://bugssonline.org/membership/
"Whistleblower Policy"
ThreeFold is a peer-to-peer open-source Internet platform that connects users directly with local Internet capacity provided by farmers. No intermediaries such as centralized servers
Once voting groups are someday eventually added to OT, they will also be able to act as parties to agreements, and they will be able to take a vote in order to change their own bylaws!
The script code is unable to manipulate any assets excepting those explicitly declared beforehand on the smart contract,
Not only can the smart contract move_funds() between these declared accounts, as its script logic dictates, but it can also stash_funds() directly inside the contract itself!
A smart contract can be activated, after which point it takes on a “life of its own”
You can also define variables in your smart contract, which persist through its entire lifetime. As the smart contract—including its internal state—continues to process over time, receipts will continue to drop into the relevant parties’ inboxes,
A signed copy of the original smart contract shows it as it was, when the parties first signed and activated it. Additionally, a server-signed, updated version of the contract comes with each receipt, showing the latest state
Once the contract expires (or is deactivated) then a finalReceipt is dropped into all relevant inboxes, after which no other receipts are possible for that smart contract.
Let’s say a party needs to DIRECTLY trigger one of the clauses on the contract. (Instead of waiting around for it to trigger automatically based on some rule.) For example, perhaps an escrow user wishes to execute a clause in order to DISPUTE THE OUTCOME, or perhaps an arbitrator wishes to activate a clause in order to RENDER A JUDGMENT. OT’s smart contracts can do precisely these sorts of things, limited only by your imagination (and my pre-alpha code.)
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