CERN Open Hardware Licence News

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31-01-2012: OHL being discussed on LWN.net

LWN.net is a reader-supported news site dedicated to producing the best coverage from within the Linux and free software development communities. In response to CERN’s Call for Comments LWN.net currently discusses improvements to the CERN OHL licence.

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18-01-2012: Call for Comments on OHL v1.2

From: cernohl-request@ohwr.org [mailto:cernohl-request@ohwr.org] On Behalf Of Myriam Ayass Sent: 18 January 2012 11:15 To: cernohl@ohwr.org Subject: CERN OHL v.1.2 Hi, Thanks to all the feedback we have received on the CERN OHL v.

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11-01-2012: CERN's Director General cites OHL

In his New Year’s presentation 2012 to all CERN’s personnel, CERN Director General Rolf Heuer devoted one slide on the CERN Open Hardware Licence. The slide reads: Implementing new IP schemes to bridge the gap between CERN and society

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06-01-2012: Tinkerforge German startup uses CERN OHL

The German start-up company Tinkerforge explains its modular hardware kit at http://youtu.be/3DwzskCmTgE According to their Press release, they have chosen the CERN Open Hardware License for their designs.

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08-09-2011: Gizmo For You uses CERN OHL for designs

The fine folks at Gizmo For You have decided to use CERN OHL to license all their designs. Check out their site for a list of nice projects and a very interesting business model.

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08-07-2011: CERN releases Open Hardware License v1.1

“Four months after launching the alpha version, CERN has today issued version 1.1 of the Open Hardware Licence (OHL), a legal framework to facilitate knowledge exchange across the electronic design community.