From kanzure at gmail.com Thu May 6 12:27:12 2010 From: kanzure at gmail.com (Bryan Bishop) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:27:12 -0500 Subject: [cc-patents] Fwd: [GOSH] One week left to contribute to GOSH! publication In-Reply-To: <112DBDFB-E72F-4EBE-B5E9-BBC86702B43B@danieljolliffe.ca> References: <112DBDFB-E72F-4EBE-B5E9-BBC86702B43B@danieljolliffe.ca> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Jolliffe Date: Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:05 PM Subject: [GOSH] One week left to contribute to GOSH! publication To: GOSH! - Grounding Open Source Hardware Hello all: here's the link to the provisional GOSH! publication. this version is pretty rough: we will begin text editing correcting typos in this version in the coming days. Layout stats in about 5 days, and we plan to be finished in eight. So, if you have something to contribute, now is the time! http://www.gosh2009.ca/wiki/index.php/Publication_Draft_May5 Daniel _______________________________________________ GOSH mailing list GOSH at piksel.no https://piksel.no/mailman/listinfo/gosh -- - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507 From kanzure at gmail.com Sun May 9 09:55:51 2010 From: kanzure at gmail.com (Bryan Bishop) Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 08:55:51 -0500 Subject: [cc-patents] Fwd: [oshug] Open Hardware Licensing and Models for Sustainability, 27th May. In-Reply-To: <20100509114545.GC5006@rhys.osmosoft.com> References: <20100509114545.GC5006@rhys.osmosoft.com> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Back Date: Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:45 AM Subject: [oshug] Open Hardware Licensing and Models for Sustainability, 27th May. To: oshug at oshug.org Hello, For our second meeting we've presentations from Andrew Katz on licensing Open Source Hardware projects and a representative from Pay It Forward on Altruistic 3D printing using RepRap. - Free and open source software is mainstream. Free and open hardware isn't. Andrew is increasingly involved in open hardware, and considers what, if anything, is different about hardware which makes open projects a challenge, and whether it is possible to construct a licence, like the GPL, which has a copyleft element applicable to hardware. Andrew Katz is a partner at Moorcrofts LLP, a boutique law firm in England's Thames Valley and advises a wide range of businesses on free and open source related issues. He has lectured and published widely on the subject and is a founder editor of the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review. Before becoming a solicitor, he trained as a barrister, and moonlighted as a programmer during his studies at Bar School, programming in Turbo Pascal. He has released software under the GPL. - Pay It Forward ? Alturistic 3D Printing Pay It Forward is a movement to bootstrap the thingiverse using RepStrap machines to print parts to help other people get started with RepRap machines. Please register to attend via http://oshugsust.eventbrite.com and share via http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5849274/ . And thanks to Paul for further updates to http://oshug.org, including a shiny new logo! Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew at osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com _______________________________________________ oshug mailing list oshug at oshug.org http://oshug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oshug -- - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507 From kanzure at gmail.com Wed May 19 11:42:31 2010 From: kanzure at gmail.com (Bryan Bishop) Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 10:42:31 -0500 Subject: [cc-patents] Defensive Patent License In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: (I'll be currating responses at the openmanufacturing.org group, if anyone is interested in hearing all the responses..) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: shazzner Date: Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:29 AM Subject: [austin-hacker-space] Defensive Patent License To: Austin Hackerspace There is some new scuttlebutt over Defensive Patent Licenses as a way out for open-source software companies to avoid patent litigation against producing entities. I think this might be work for hardware along with software too, so we might see a Hackerspace defensive patent pool. Discuss. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/05/will-defensive-patent-license-be-able.html http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/05/dpl-and-fair-troll-business-model-make.html - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507