Open source hardware: Difference between revisions

[[File:Open-source-hardware-logo.svg|thumb|200px|The Open Source Hardware logo]]'''Open source hardware''' is defined by the Open Source Hardware Association as a term for tangible artifacts -– machines, devices, or other physical things -– whose design has been released to the public in such a way that anyone can make, modify, distribute, and use those things.<ref name="def">[http://www.oshwa.org/definition/ Open Source Hardware (OSHW) Definition 1.0].</ref>

== Without restrictions ==

Releasing designs under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC-BY-NC-SA] licence, preventing commercial use of them is not compatible with the OSHW definition.<ref name="def" /><ref>[http://www.ladyada.net/library/openhardware/license.html Open Source Hardware Licenses], ladyada.net, 17 May 2011</ref><ref>[http://mutable-instruments.net/forum/discussion/207/freedom-open-source-hardware-etc-/ Freedom, open-source hardware, etc.], Mutable Instruments forum, Sep. 2010</ref>

Documentation must be easily obtainable, design files must be in CAD format and not in an intermediate format such as PDF.<ref name="def" />

* [[ListOpen of open-source music hardware projects]]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150324010614/http://www.opencircuits.com/Main_Page Open Circuits wiki]

* [https://medium.com/music-thing-modular-notes/why-open-source-music-hardware-works-for-music-thing-modular-6ac004ac4553#.akttcrtfx Why open source hardware works for Music Thing Modular] by Tom Whitwell

* [http://www.horizontalpitch.com/2015/09/1271/ Open Modules for Open Minds -– Open Software and Hardware in the Modular World] by Hannes

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