CERN Open Hardware Licence

The CERN Open Hardware Licence (OHL or CERN OHL) is a license used in open-source hardware projects. It was created by CERN, which published version 1.0 in March 2011. Version 1.1 was published in July 2011.[1] Version 1.2 was published in September 2013.[2][3]CERN OHL v1.2 released</ref>

Wording

Contrary to most of license names, the CERN OHL uses the British English spelling licence, not the American English spelling license containing an s.

Projects using the CERN OHL

The ColorHug2, an open source colorimeter.

On the CERN OHL website they have a list of projects using their license.[4] These projects include:

Reception

The CERN OHL is an accepted free content license according to the Free Cultural Works definition.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ CERN launches Open Hardware initiative
  2. ↑ CERN Open Hardware Licence 1.2
  3. ↑ CERN OHL v1.2 released
  4. ↑ http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cernohl/wiki/CernOhlProjects
  5. ↑ "AXIOM Alpha".
  6. ↑ biere-libre
  7. ↑ https://github.com/hughski/colorhug2-hardware/blob/master/COPYING
  8. ↑ "Monero Hardware Wallet revision control".
  9. ↑ Licenses on freedomdefined.org "The CERN Open Hardware Licence (CERN OHL) is a license used in open-source hardware projects (OSHW)."
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