TY - BOOK
T1 - On licenses for [Open] Hardware
AU - Monton, Marius
AU - Salazar, Xavier
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/11/18
Y1 - 2020/11/18
N2 - This document explains the basic concepts related to software and hardware licenses, and it summarizes the most popular licenses that are currently used for hardware projects. Two case studies of hardware projects at different levels of abstraction are also presented, together with a discussion of license applicability, commercial issues, code protection, and related concerns.This paper intends to help the reader understand how to release open hardware with the most appropriate license, and to answer questions that are of current interest. We have been mainly motivated by the growing influence of the open RISC-V ISA, but trying to address a wider hardware point of view.
AB - This document explains the basic concepts related to software and hardware licenses, and it summarizes the most popular licenses that are currently used for hardware projects. Two case studies of hardware projects at different levels of abstraction are also presented, together with a discussion of license applicability, commercial issues, code protection, and related concerns.This paper intends to help the reader understand how to release open hardware with the most appropriate license, and to answer questions that are of current interest. We have been mainly motivated by the growing influence of the open RISC-V ISA, but trying to address a wider hardware point of view.
KW - Licenses
KW - open-hardware
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85098658889&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/DCIS51330.2020.9268619
DO - 10.1109/DCIS51330.2020.9268619
M3 - Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85098658889
T3 - 2020 35th Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems, DCIS 2020
BT - On licenses for [Open] Hardware
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ER -