Von: Christian Siefkes
<p>@Juergen:</p> <blockquote> <p>I think that of course we should add a passage addressing the re-user and obliging him/her to re-apply the trademark to any physical device...
View ArticleVon: Kozuch
An interesting reading here. I think a “clickwrap” license would do the job??? There is lot of talking about the licensing of open hardware projects, but isnt it actually a very trivial problem? If you...
View ArticleVon: Christian Siefkes
<p>@Kozuch: I mentioned in my comment to Juergen that a shrink-wrap (or click-wrap) license <em>might</em> work, but I think it would be very difficult to get something that is...
View ArticleVon: Kozuch
I think there must be a way how to solve the problem. I can imagine there are thousands similar cases in business out there where lawyers are not supported by current laws and they have to deal with it...
View ArticleVon: Christian Siefkes
<p>@Kozuch: Well, we’ll see if the GOSH initiative (cf. Juergen’s comments) will achieve something. I also know that the c,mm,n car project tried to work out a license based on contract law...
View ArticleVon: Thomas Kalka
A trademark could be used to support open hardware by giving consumers a choice. If some well known “open hardware” label would exist, people could choose to prefer bying this products. But the...
View ArticleVon: Joe Lotz
Thanks for publishing your thoughts on this topic. I have been struggling with understanding how to approach this topic with my own designs/projects. On one hand I have learned most of “hacking” from...
View ArticleVon: Christian Siefkes
<p>Michel Bauwens has published an interesting series discussing obstacles to and controversies about open source hardware development:</p> <ol> <li><a...
View ArticleVon: Vinay Gupta
For what it’s worth, Hexayurt Project (http://hexayurt.com) is an Free housing project of substantial scale (we had over 500 units built at Burning Man last year, for a total spend of about $250,000...
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