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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. | ||||
|  | ||||
| “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. | ||||
|  | ||||
| “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. | ||||
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| 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. | ||||
|  | ||||
| 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. | ||||
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| 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: | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
|  | ||||
| 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. | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
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| 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. | ||||
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| 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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