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Add Hardware section to the Non-Software Licenses page

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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.
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@ -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.