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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Hardware News => Topic started by: markos on November 15, 2009, 09:51:30 PM
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The Market research for new PowerPC system (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=49424) didn't prove as fruitful as originally hoped, but it generated a lot of interest all around. This inspired Power2People (http://www.power2people.org) to create a bounty to help the design and production of the board!
So, I'm glad to announce the "Open Source Hardware Bounty"! More details on the bounty can be found here (http://www.power2people.org/projects.html) (scroll down to the open bounties and check the design steps). Genesi fully supports this effort (http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2009/11/open-source-hardware-bounty.html) as it is close to the spirit of their successful Pegasos systems (http://www.genesi-usa.com/products/opendesktop).
So what is so special about this project?
ALL GENERATED MATERIAL WILL BE OPEN SOURCED! That is, schematics (PDF/Protel), PCB design (Gerber files), Bill of materials, etc. The license chosen is one suited well for similar hardware projects, and close to the spirit of GPL, the TAPR Open Hardware License (http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html). This means, after the design is finished, ANYONE can use the design to build a product based on it and sell it with no extra requirements. Also, the good thing about the license chosen is that it ensures there can be no patent claims from one board producer to another.
Software bounties will also be started in association to this bounty.
I want you people to know that I'm looking at this project very seriously, to prove this I already have donated 1000EUR to the first bounty, and I don't intend to stop there.
Discussion relevant to the development of the board will take place in the PowerDeveloper (http://www.powerdeveloper.org) forum, but feel free to ask anything related here or by mail.