From 6e0063e56cde2837e16d0498a6e88b2d12469ec0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nytpu Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:22:49 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Add Hardware section to the Non-Software Licenses page Recommended the CERN OHL v2 family of licenses and linked to software licenses with similar terms. Also added mention of the Creative Commons licenses often used for hardware. --- non-software.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/non-software.md b/non-software.md index 8335012..2c83d72 100644 --- a/non-software.md +++ b/non-software.md @@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ Any open source software license or open license for media (see [above](#data-me The [SIL Open Font License 1.1](/licenses/ofl-1.1/) keeps fonts open, allowing them to be freely used in other works. +### Hardware + +There are the CERN Open Hardware family of licenses: [CERN-OHL-P-2.0](/licenses/cern-ohl-p-2.0/) (Permissive, [MIT](/licenses/mit/)-like), [CERN-OHL-W-2.0](/licenses/cern-ohl-w-2.0/) (Weakly reciprocal, [MPL](/licenses/mpl-2.0/)-like), and [cern-ohl-s-2.0](/licenses/cern-ohl-s-2.0/) (Strongly reciprocal, [GPL](/licenses/gpl-3.0/)-like). The CERN OHL family is also applicable to HDL source code and programmable hardware such as FPGA bitstreams. + +[CC-BY-4.0](/licenses/cc-by-4.0/) and [CC-BY-SA-4.0](/licenses/cc-by-sa-4.0/) are also commonly used for hardware; however they do not grant patent rights which restricts usage of patent-encumbered hardware licensed under them. + +If your hardware has accompanying software then be sure to specify a license for the software portion as well as the hardware portion. + ### Mixed projects If your project contains a mix of software and other material, you can include multiple licenses, as long as you are explicit about which license applies to each part of the project. See [the license notice for this site](https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com#license) as an example.