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|  | CERN Open Hardware Licence v1.2  | ||||||
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|  | Preamble | ||||||
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|  | Through this CERN Open Hardware Licence ("CERN OHL") version 1.2, CERN | ||||||
|  | wishes to provide a tool to foster collaboration and sharing among | ||||||
|  | hardware designers.  The CERN OHL is copyright CERN. Anyone is welcome | ||||||
|  | to use the CERN OHL, in unmodified form only, for the distribution of | ||||||
|  | their own Open Hardware designs. Any other right is reserved. Release | ||||||
|  | of hardware designs under the CERN OHL does not constitute an | ||||||
|  | endorsement of the licensor or its designs nor does it imply any | ||||||
|  | involvement by CERN in the development of such designs. | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | 1. Definitions | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | In this Licence, the following terms have the following meanings: | ||||||
|  |   | ||||||
|  | “Licence” means this CERN OHL. | ||||||
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|  | “Documentation” means schematic diagrams, designs, circuit or circuit | ||||||
|  | board layouts, mechanical drawings, flow charts and descriptive text, | ||||||
|  | and other explanatory material that is explicitly stated as being made | ||||||
|  | available under the conditions of this Licence. The Documentation may | ||||||
|  | be in any medium, including but not limited to computer files and | ||||||
|  | representations on paper, film, or any other media. | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | “Documentation Location” means a location where the Licensor has | ||||||
|  | placed Documentation, and which he believes will be publicly | ||||||
|  | accessible for at least three years from the first communication to | ||||||
|  | the public or distribution of Documentation. | ||||||
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|  | “Product” means either an entire, or any part of a, device built using | ||||||
|  | the Documentation or the modified Documentation. | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | “Licensee” means any natural or legal person exercising rights under | ||||||
|  | this Licence. | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | “Licensor” means any natural or legal person that creates or modifies | ||||||
|  | Documentation and subsequently communicates to the public and/ or | ||||||
|  | distributes the resulting Documentation under the terms and conditions | ||||||
|  | of this Licence. | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | A Licensee may at the same time be a Licensor, and vice versa.  | ||||||
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|  | Use of the masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter genders | ||||||
|  | and is employed solely to facilitate reading. | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | 2. Applicability | ||||||
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|  | 2.1. This Licence governs the use, copying, modification, | ||||||
|  | communication to the public and distribution of the Documentation, and | ||||||
|  | the manufacture and distribution of Products. By exercising any right | ||||||
|  | granted under this Licence, the Licensee irrevocably accepts these | ||||||
|  | terms and conditions. | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | 2.2. This Licence is granted by the Licensor directly to the Licensee, | ||||||
|  | and shall apply worldwide and without limitation in time. The Licensee | ||||||
|  | may assign his licence rights or grant sub-licences. | ||||||
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|  | 2.3. This Licence does not extend to software, firmware, or code | ||||||
|  | loaded into programmable devices which may be used in conjunction with | ||||||
|  | the Documentation, the modified Documentation or with Products, unless | ||||||
|  | such software, firmware, or code is explicitly expressed to be subject | ||||||
|  | to this Licence. The use of such software, firmware, or code is | ||||||
|  | otherwise subject to the applicable licence terms and conditions. | ||||||
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|  | 3. Copying, modification, communication to the public and distribution | ||||||
|  | of the Documentation | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | 3.1. The Licensee shall keep intact all copyright and trademarks | ||||||
|  | notices, all notices referring to Documentation Location, and all | ||||||
|  | notices that refer to this Licence and to the disclaimer of warranties | ||||||
|  | that are included in the Documentation. He shall include a copy | ||||||
|  | thereof in every copy of the Documentation or, as the case may be, | ||||||
|  | modified Documentation, that he communicates to the public or | ||||||
|  | distributes. | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | 3.2. The Licensee may copy, communicate to the public and distribute | ||||||
|  | verbatim copies of the Documentation, in any medium, subject to the | ||||||
|  | requirements specified in section 3.1. | ||||||
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|  | 3.3. The Licensee may modify the Documentation or any portion thereof | ||||||
|  | provided that upon modification of the Documentation, the Licensee | ||||||
|  | shall make the modified Documentation available from a Documentation | ||||||
|  | Location such that it can be easily located by an original Licensor | ||||||
|  | once the Licensee communicates to the public or distributes the | ||||||
|  | modified Documentation under section 3.4, and, where required by | ||||||
|  | section 4.1, by a recipient of a Product. However, the Licensor shall | ||||||
|  | not assert his rights under the foregoing proviso unless or until a | ||||||
|  | Product is distributed. | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | 3.4. The Licensee may communicate to the public and distribute the | ||||||
|  | modified Documentation (thereby in addition to being a Licensee also | ||||||
|  | becoming a Licensor), always provided that he shall: | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | a) comply with section 3.1; | ||||||
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|  | b) cause the modified Documentation to carry prominent notices stating | ||||||
|  | that the Licensee has modified the Documentation, with the date and | ||||||
|  | description of the modifications; | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | c) cause the modified Documentation to carry a new Documentation | ||||||
|  | Location notice if the original Documentation provided for one; | ||||||
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|  | d) make available the modified Documentation at the same level of | ||||||
|  | abstraction as that of the Documentation, in the preferred format for | ||||||
|  | making modifications to it (e.g. the native format of the CAD tool as | ||||||
|  | applicable), and in the event that format is proprietary, in a format | ||||||
|  | viewable with a tool licensed under an OSI-approved license if the | ||||||
|  | proprietary tool can create it; and | ||||||
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|  | e) license the modified Documentation under the terms and conditions | ||||||
|  | of this Licence or, where applicable, a later version of this Licence | ||||||
|  | as may be issued by CERN. | ||||||
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|  | 3.5. The Licence includes a non-exclusive licence to those patents or | ||||||
|  | registered designs that are held by, under the control of, or | ||||||
|  | sub-licensable by the Licensor, to the extent necessary to make use of | ||||||
|  | the rights granted under this Licence. The scope of this section 3.5 | ||||||
|  | shall be strictly limited to the parts of the Documentation or | ||||||
|  | modified Documentation created by the Licensor. | ||||||
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|  | 4. Manufacture and distribution of Products | ||||||
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|  | 4.1. The Licensee may manufacture or distribute Products always | ||||||
|  | provided that, where such manufacture or distribution requires a | ||||||
|  | licence under this Licence the Licensee provides to each recipient of | ||||||
|  | such Products an easy means of accessing a copy of the Documentation | ||||||
|  | or modified Documentation, as applicable, as set out in section 3. | ||||||
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|  | 4.2. The Licensee is invited to inform any Licensor who has indicated | ||||||
|  | his wish to receive this information about the type, quantity and | ||||||
|  | dates of production of Products the Licensee has (had) manufactured | ||||||
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|  | 5. Warranty and liability | ||||||
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|  | 5.1. DISCLAIMER – The Documentation and any modified Documentation are | ||||||
|  | provided "as is" and any express or implied warranties, including, but | ||||||
|  | not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, of satisfactory | ||||||
|  | quality, non-infringement of third party rights, and fitness for a | ||||||
|  | particular purpose or use are disclaimed in respect of the | ||||||
|  | Documentation, the modified Documentation or any Product. The Licensor | ||||||
|  | makes no representation that the Documentation, modified | ||||||
|  | Documentation, or any Product, does or will not infringe any patent, | ||||||
|  | copyright, trade secret or other proprietary right. The entire risk as | ||||||
|  | to the use, quality, and performance of a Product shall be with the | ||||||
|  | Licensee and not the Licensor. This disclaimer of warranty is an | ||||||
|  | essential part of this Licence and a condition for the grant of any | ||||||
|  | rights granted under this Licence. The Licensee warrants that it does | ||||||
|  | not act in a consumer capacity. | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | 5.2. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY – The Licensor shall have no liability | ||||||
|  | for direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, exemplary, | ||||||
|  | punitive or other damages of any character including, without | ||||||
|  | limitation, procurement of substitute goods or services, loss of use, | ||||||
|  | data or profits, or business interruption, however caused and on any | ||||||
|  | theory of contract, warranty, tort (including negligence), product | ||||||
|  | liability or otherwise, arising in any way in relation to the | ||||||
|  | Documentation, modified Documentation and/or the use, manufacture or | ||||||
|  | distribution of a Product, even if advised of the possibility of such | ||||||
|  | damages, and the Licensee shall hold the Licensor(s) free and harmless | ||||||
|  | from any liability, costs, damages, fees and expenses, including | ||||||
|  | claims by third parties, in relation to such use. | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | 6. General | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | 6.1. Except for the rights explicitly granted hereunder, this Licence | ||||||
|  | does not imply or represent any transfer or assignment of intellectual | ||||||
|  | property rights to the Licensee. | ||||||
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|  | 6.2. The Licensee shall not use or make reference to any of the names | ||||||
|  | (including acronyms and abbreviations), images, or logos under which | ||||||
|  | the Licensor is known, save in so far as required to comply with | ||||||
|  | section 3. Any such permitted use or reference shall be factual and | ||||||
|  | shall in no event suggest any kind of endorsement by the Licensor or | ||||||
|  | its personnel of the modified Documentation or any Product, or any | ||||||
|  | kind of implication by the Licensor or its personnel in the | ||||||
|  | preparation of the modified Documentation or Product. | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | 6.3. CERN may publish updated versions of this Licence which retain | ||||||
|  | the same general provisions as this version, but differ in detail so | ||||||
|  | far this is required and reasonable. New versions will be published | ||||||
|  | with a unique version number. | ||||||
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|  | 6.4. This Licence shall terminate with immediate effect, upon written | ||||||
|  | notice and without involvement of a court if the Licensee fails to | ||||||
|  | comply with any of its terms and conditions, or if the Licensee | ||||||
|  | initiates legal action against Licensor in relation to this | ||||||
|  | Licence. Section 5 shall continue to apply. | ||||||
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