[okfn-discuss] [ohf-licenses] [open-hw] Classification of openhardware

Wed May 21 15:01:18 UTC 2008

Greg London wrote:
> If there were a definition for Open Hardware,
> it would be something like:
>
> A design, usually in the form of some copyrightable work,
> which describes a physical object in sufficient detail that
> the device can be constructed from the design.

Do people generally agree that a brief statement like this (for 
'hardware') coupled with the Open Knowledge Definition (for 'open', see 
opendefinition.org) could constitute a definition for open hardware?

Is there any other angle we'd like to cover?

Jonathan