Talk:Open-source hardware

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Family Guy Guy in topic Hitachi SH2

IBM Cell Processor

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What about the new promising IBM Cell Processor?

I read at many places, it is supposed to be "open source hardware":

  • Is it only the interface specification to the hardware, which is open?
  • Or is the whole hardware design (including verilog source code etc.) public available?
  • Or is even the hardware design licensed under a licence which fulfills the 4 freedoms of software/OS Definition?

If anybody knows sth. about it => Please add it here!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.95.147.244 (talkcontribs)

Removing metion to FSF's RYF

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RYF certifications have nothing to do with free or open hardware. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Free_Software_Foundation&oldid=863791402#Hardware_endorsements_(RYF) (current revision at time of posting):

   "To be granted certification, a product must use 100% Free Software, allow user installation of modified software, be free of back doors and conform with several other requirements."

The FSF's "Respects Your Freedom hardware certification requirements" (https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/criteria) only requires that the hardware is shipped and usable with only 100% free software. In fact, the requirements only mention the word 'hardware' in the title and preamble.

TabbyEVO

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the link for TabbyEVO in, Forms of open-source hardware > Mechatronics redirects to the archived old site in the wayback machine. I think they changed the website and it now is https://www.openmotors.co/product/tabbyevo/. I don't know how to convey the closure of old website and the shift to new one in the article, maybe it should be done in TabbyEVO's own wiki article page?

Requested move 2 March 2022

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 21:38, 10 March 2022 (UTC)Reply


Open-source hardwareOpen hardware – Open hardware is a more established and descriptive term, although some use the term 'Open-source hardware'. See: https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-hardware & https://ohwr.org+Avoinlähde (talk) 20:47, 2 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

This is a contested technical request (permalink). 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 21:43, 2 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Source of the argument? E.g. Opensource.com website uses the term 'Open hardware'. --Avoinlähde (talk) 21:32, 4 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Hitachi SH2

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Many of Hitachi's SuperH/SH2 patents are now open in this project: [1], but I'm not sure it belongs in the article. Family Guy Guy (talk) 14:44, 19 May 2023 (UTC)Reply