Qi Hardware
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[edit] Qi conditions
You can say your product is Qi if it has:
- Copyleft Plans (GPL)
- Copyleft Software (CC BY-SA)
- Copyleft Patents (Open Patents)
[edit] Compliant Devices
[edit] Need to Followup
- TV-B-GONE
- Open Manufacturing
- http://www.adafruit.com/
- http://designfiles.org/dokuwiki/skdb
- http://heybryan.org/
- http://diybio.org/
- http://groups.google.com/group/diybio
- http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo
- http://openmanufacturing.org/
- http://openmanufacturing.net/
- http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing
- http://gnusha.org/
- http://openfarmtech.org/
- http://factorefarm.org/
- http://adciv.org/
- http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Design
- http://thingiverse.com/
- http://instructables.com/
- http://reprap.org/
- http://makerbot.com/
- http://fabathome.org/
- http://seasteading.org/
- http://acceleratingfuture.com/
- http://humanityplus.org/
[edit] Popular FUD
Of course, these are false...
From wolfie:
1. "popular F/OSS licenses don't apply because hardware is a different beast" 2. "CC can't protect functional works" 3. "GPL is not a good match with hardware" 4. "patents are de rigueur" 5. "patents are a fairly good match to hardware" 6. "there is an exclusion that prevents people from manufacturing chumby devices" 7. "I'd love if some university or non-profit felt free ..., _BUT_ ..." 8. "there are issues such as trademark, media licenses (MP3), code licenses (Adobe Flash), and we haven't figured out a good way ..." 9. "my PCB design tool, Altium Designer. It's not a cheap piece of software, but ..." 10. "the idea of paying even a couple thousand dollars for a tool seems expensive, until..."
