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Bruce Perens
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Open-source hardware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia smoothieware.github.io Apr 15, 2016 9 facts
referenceBruce Perens published 'Open Hardware – Constitution' in 2011 on the Open Hardware wiki.
accountBruce Perens announced the Open Hardware Certification Program in 1997 on the Debian Announce List.
referenceBruce Perens published 'Promoting Open Hardware' in September 2011.
accountThe TAPR Open Hardware License was drafted by attorney John Ackermann, reviewed by open-source software community leaders Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, and discussed by hundreds of volunteers in an open community discussion.
accountBruce Perens reactivated the openhardware.org website in 2007.
accountBruce Perens, creator of the Open Source Definition and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, started the first hardware-focused open source activities around 1997.
claimOpenhardware.org, led by Bruce Perens, promoted and identified practices that met the combined requirements of the Open Source Hardware Definition, the Open Source Definition, and the Four Freedoms of the Free Software Foundation.
accountBruce Perens abandoned the Open Source Hardware (OSHW) Definition and the concerted efforts of those involved with it following the 2011 Open Hardware Summit and debates regarding licenses and the definition of open source hardware.
accountBruce Perens launched the Open Hardware Certification Program with the goal of allowing hardware manufacturers to self-certify their products as open.
Free and open-source software - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 8 facts
claimJoe Barr interviewed Bruce Perens in an article titled 'Meet the Perens', published in LinuxWorld Magazine on January 13, 2003.
claimBruce Perens delivered a message titled 'State of Open Source Message: A New Decade For Open Source' on February 9, 1998.
referenceBruce Perens defined 'The Open Source Definition' in the 1999 book 'Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution'.
perspectiveBruce Perens stated that he felt Eric Raymond's promotion of open-source unfairly overshadowed the Free Software Foundation's efforts and reaffirmed his support for free software.
claimBruce Perens did not base his writing of the Debian Free Software Guidelines on the Free Software Foundation's 'Four Essential Freedoms' because those freedoms were not yet available on the web at that time.
claimThe Open Source Definition was based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines, which were written and adapted primarily by Bruce Perens.
claimBruce Perens published 'The Open Source Definition' on March 29, 1999, which was later included in the book 'Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution'.
accountThe Open Source Initiative (OSI) was founded in 1998 by a group of developers including Eric Raymond, Bruce Perens, Tim O'Reilly, and Linus Torvalds to promote the term 'Open Source' and emphasize collaborative development benefits over ideology.
Brief History of Open Source Hardware Organizations and ... oshwa.org 6 facts
quoteBruce Perens stated in 2007: "Surprise! After a long dark period of being used to divert traffic to a bling vendor, OpenHardware.org is back in the control of its founder. The domain was created by me (Bruce Perens) to operate an Open Hardware certification program, while I was associated with SPI(1). At the time Linux was not yet commercially accepted, and thus there wasn’t tremendous demand for such a program. I think only Cyclades registered while I was connected with the program. I passed management of the program to Vincent Renardias to operate as part of SPI. I think Vincent may have allowed the domain to go inactive after that, or passed it to someone else who allowed that to happen. Somehow SPI managed to let the domain expire – I assume not deliberately, but SPI was asleep at the switch for long enough that the domain was on registrar hold for some time and then was allowed to expire. The domain was then picked up by some sort of search engine optimizer / domain squatter and used to provide ersatz traffic (that is traffic intending to get the previous site) to HipHopCapital.com, a bling vendor, for several years. I used a domain capture service, a little money, and several years of patience to pick up the domain again. It was transferred to the ownership of Perens LLC on September 2, 2007 (US-Pacific time)."
perspectiveBruce Perens justified his withdrawal from the Open Source Hardware (OSHW) Definition efforts by citing concerns that the selected logo could not be trademarked and that the new licenses could not be legally enforced.
accountThe open source hardware community split into two parallel efforts: one operating under the 'open hardware' banner led by Bruce Perens, and another operating under the 'open source hardware' (OSHW) banner.
claimBruce Perens stated in 2007 that he intended to operate an Open Hardware certification program under the domain openhardware.org, managed by his not-for-profit organization techp.org, to fulfill his original goals for OpenHardware.
accountBruce Perens trademarked the term 'open hardware' and the domain openhardware.org, committing the domain to the Open Hardware Certification Program.
accountDiscussions regarding the open source hardware definition took place through private email exchanges and on the summit’s mailing list, with Phillip Torrone and Bruce Perens being the most vocal participants.
The Open Source Definition - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 3 facts
accountBruce Perens stated that when he had to write license guidelines for the Debian project, the 'Four Freedoms' document (associated with the Free Software Foundation) was unknown to him.
accountThe creation of the Debian Social Contract and the Debian Free Software Guidelines was prompted by an email discussion between Ean Schuessler of Debian and Donnie Barnes of Red Hat, in which Schuessler accused Red Hat of failing to elucidate its social contract with the Linux community, leading Bruce Perens to realize that Debian also lacked a formal social contract.
accountBruce Perens drafted a set of open-source guidelines to accompany the 1998 release of the Mozilla browser by Netscape.
Open-source software - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimUnder Bruce Perens' definition, open source is a broad software license that makes source code available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent restrictions on the use and modification of the code to enable rapid software evolution.
claimBruce Perens authored 'The Open Source Definition', which serves as a foundational document for the Open Source Initiative's definition of open source software.
Open-source license - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
referenceBruce Perens proposed the Debian Free Software Guidelines at Debian to establish a specific and objective standard for free and open-source software hosted in Debian repositories.
claimThe Open Source Initiative (OSI), founded by free-software developers Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, used the term 'open source' to emphasize the strengths of the open development model rather than software freedoms.
Open Hardware Licenses - P2P Foundation Wiki wiki.p2pfoundation.net Jun 17, 2015 1 fact
quoteBruce 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."
Open Source Hardware Definition | OSHWA oshwa.org 1 fact
referenceThe Open Source Hardware (OSHW) Definition 1.0 is based on the Open Source Definition for Open Source Software, which was created by Bruce Perens and the Debian developers as the Debian Free Software Guidelines.