CERN Open Hardware Licence (OHL) now available on Thingiverse

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The 3 variants of the CERN OHL V2 can now be selected when uploading a Thing to Thingiverse. You can find this on the upload form accessible in the Create button in the top-right corner (Create > Upload a Thing / Remix).

This was a request from engineers wanting to share their Projects to Thingiverse, and it is a first step towards building a trusted platform for opensource hardware communities.

You can read more about the CERN OHL V2 at this page: CERN OHL version 2 · Wiki · Open Hardware Repository / Projects / CERN Open Hardware Licence · GitLab

Are there other license types you’d like to see being added when uploading a Project?

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Excellent, CERN is a great addition. I guess across open source stuff I often see MIT licence particularly for firmwares etc. Might be one to consider.

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Some older projects are still licenced CERN OHL v1, that’s not an OSI approved license though. I agree that MIT is a useful license. “Unlicense” can be useful too.

There is also the fact that there are quite a few versions of things like GNU GPL (v2-only, v2-or-later, v3-only, v3-or-later), there is also BSD 2 clause and BSD 3 clause. But this gets complicated and can turn people off from selecting a license.

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