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TAPR

Also known as: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Corporation

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Open Hardware Licenses - P2P Foundation Wiki wiki.p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation Jun 17, 2015 5 facts

claimThe effectiveness of TAPR licenses depends on the licensor possessing relevant patents or the uncertainty of others regarding the licensor's patent holdings.

perspectiveJonathan Kuniholm argues that efforts to create open hardware licenses, such as those by TAPR, CERN, OHANDA, and OSHW, fail because they do not address the lack of clarity regarding what is being licensed and whether such licenses would withstand a legal challenge.

claimThe TAPR license is the only license that attempts to extend copyleft protection to the hardware itself, but it has not achieved popularity outside of the TAPR project.

claimTAPR has published two hardware licenses: the Open Hardware License (OHL), which emulates standard copyleft, and the TAPR Noncommercial Hardware License (NCL), which prohibits commercial usage.

claimThe TAPR Open Hardware License is a share-alike license developed by the TAPR community of radio amateurs specifically for hardware, relying on patent law rather than copyright law.

Brief History of Open Source Hardware Organizations and ... oshwa.org Open Source Hardware Association 4 facts

claimThe TAPR Open Hardware License was the first hardware-specific open source license, developed by TAPR to help a group of software-defined radio developers protect their work from commercial co-option.

accountIn 2005, TAPR began assisting a group developing high-performance software-defined radio products that wanted to contribute their expertise to the ham radio community.

referenceThe OSHWA resource list includes articles by Phil Torrone on Open Source Hardware published in Make magazine between 2007 and 2011, as well as organizational information from TAPR.

claimThe Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) aims to serve as a hub for open source hardware activity across all genres while collaborating with organizations such as TAPR, CERN, and the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

Open-source hardware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia smoothieware.github.io Smoothieware Apr 15, 2016 3 facts

claimThe Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Corporation (TAPR) was founded in 1982 as a non-profit organization of amateur radio operators with the goal of supporting research and development in amateur digital communications.

claimTAPR introduced an open-source hardware license, which was met with skepticism by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

claimThe Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Corporation (TAPR) created the TAPR Open Hardware License in 2007, which was the first open hardware license.