Bruce Perens stated: "In promoting Open Hardware, it is important not to unintentionally deceive designers regarding the extent to which their licenses actually can control their designs. Under U.S. law, and law in many other places, copyright does not apply to electronic designs. Patents do. The result is that an Open Hardware license can in general be used to restrict the plans but probably not the manufactured devices or even restatements of the same design that are not textual copies of the original."

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  Open Hardware Licenses - P2P Foundation Wiki

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• Open Hardware Licenses - P2P Foundation Wiki wiki.p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation via serper

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