OSHW License Comparison

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N
1	Name	Year	Locale	Mechanism	OSHW Definition?	Attribution?	Copyleft?	Commercial?	Notification requirement?	"Before and After"?	changes.txt	Notes	Projects	URL

2	CERN OHL 1.1	2011	EU	Patent, Copyright	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes, email	No	Yes		White Rabbit, SPEC	http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cernohl/wiki
3	TAPR 1.0	2007	USA	Patent, Copyright	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	requires manufacturing files	RHINO	http://www.tapr.org/OHL
4	TAPR NC 1.0	2007	USA	Patent, Copyright	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	requires manufacturing files		http://www.tapr.org/NCL
5	GPLv3	2007	USA (and int.?)	Patent, Copyright	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No				http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
6	GPLv2	1991	USA (and int.?)	Copyright	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No			OpenSPARC	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
7	LGPL		USA (and int.?)										opencores
8	SGPL	2000		Unspecified	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No		$$$ to manufacture		http://simputer.org/simputer/license/
9	Chumby HDK	2007		Patent, Copyright	No	No	N/A	No					Chumby	http://www.chumby.com/developers/agreement
10	CC 3.0 BY	2007	USA (but ported)	Copyright		Yes	No	Yes	No	No
11	CC 3.0 BY-SA	2007	USA (but ported)	Copyright		Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No			Arduino, milkymist board
12	CC 3.0 BY-SA-NC	2007	USA (but ported)	Copyright		Yes	Yes	No	No	No
13	Balloon	2003		Attribution only	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No		Only manufacturing files, not editable source	baloonboard	http://balloonboard.org/licence.html
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15	HDPL 0.0.4	2000												http://www.opencollector.org/hardlicense/hdpl.html
16	SolderPad License	2010	UK	Patent, attribution	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
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