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== Definition version 0.2 ==
You’re a real deep thinker. Thanks for sharnig.
The designer of open-source hardware will:
 
    * provide design files (in the preferred format for making modifications to them)
    * allow the modification and redistribution of the design files
    * allow the manufacture, sale, distribution, and use of devices from the design files or modifications of the design files
    * publish any documentation and release under an open-source license any software it has developed that is essential to the proper functioning of the device
 
without discrimination against persons, groups, or fields of endeavor.
 
The designer may require others to:
 
    * provide attribution when distributing design files based on the original designer's
    * provide attribution when manufacturing devices based on the original designer's design files or derivatives thereof
    * release as open-source hardware devices based on the original designer's design files or derivatives thereof
 
Manufacturers of a derivative device must not:
 
    * imply that the device is manufactured, tested, warrantied, guaranteed, or otherwise sanctioned by the original designer
    * make use of any trademarks owned by the original designer without explicit permission
 
Disclaimer:
We recognize that open-source is only one way of sharing information about hardware and encourage and support all forms of openness and collaboration, whether or not they fit this definition.
 
 
 
 


== Definition version 0.1 ==
== Definition version 0.1 ==
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