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Designs for `open source hardware <https://www.oshwa.org/definition/>`_ are
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covered by the CERN Open Hardware licences:
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In addition to the `GNU General Public License (GPL)
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<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html/>` and the `Creative Commons licences
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<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/>`_, the `Open Source Hardware Association
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(OSHWA) <https://www.oshwa.org/definition/>`_ also accepts the following
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specialised licences:
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`CERN-OHL-P-2.0 <https://ohwr.org/cern_ohl_p_v2.txt>`_
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permissive
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Permissive variant
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`CERN-OHL-W-2.0 <https://ohwr.org/cern_ohl_w_v2.txt>`_
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weakly reciprocal
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Weakly reciprocal variant
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`CERN-OHL-S-2.0 <https://ohwr.org/cern_ohl_s_v2.txt>`_
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strongly reciprocal
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Copyleft or strongly reciprocal variant
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`TAPR <https://tapr.org/the-tapr-open-hardware-license/>`_
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Copyleft licence
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`Solderpad Hardware License <https://solderpad.org>`_
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Permissive licence based on the `Apache 2.0 licence
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<https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html>`_
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.. seealso::
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* `Licensing Open Source Hardware
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<https://larszimmermann.de/licensing-open-source-hardware-by-michael-weinberg/>`_
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by Michael Weinberg
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* `OSHW 101 <https://oshwa.org/oshw-101/>`_
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* `Certified Open Source Hardware Projects
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<https://certification.oshwa.org/list.html>`_
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* `OSHWA Certification Process - Hardware
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<https://certification.oshwa.org/process/hardware.html>`_
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* `Licensing Open Hardware <https://zenodo.org/records/7195720>`_
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by Santosh Ilhamparuth
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* `Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation <https://fossi-foundation.org>`_
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Choosing a suitable license
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