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CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 - Strongly Reciprocal
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Preamble
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CERN has developed this licence to promote collaboration among
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hardware designers and to provide a legal tool which supports the
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freedom to use, study, modify, share and distribute hardware designs
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and products based on those designs. Version 2 of the CERN Open
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Hardware Licence comes in three variants: CERN-OHL-P (permissive); and
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two reciprocal licences: CERN-OHL-W (weakly reciprocal) and this
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licence, CERN-OHL-S (strongly reciprocal).
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The CERN-OHL-S is copyright CERN 2020. Anyone is welcome to use it, in
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unmodified form only.
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Use of this Licence does not imply any endorsement by CERN of any
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Licensor or their designs nor does it imply any involvement by CERN in
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their development.
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1 Definitions
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  1.1 'Licence' means this CERN-OHL-S.
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  1.2 'Compatible Licence' means
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       a) any earlier version of the CERN Open Hardware licence, or
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       b) any version of the CERN-OHL-S, or
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       c) any licence which permits You to treat the Source to which
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          it applies as licensed under CERN-OHL-S provided that on
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          Conveyance of any such Source, or any associated Product You
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          treat the Source in question as being licensed under
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          CERN-OHL-S.
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  1.3 'Source' means information such as design materials or digital
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      code which can be applied to Make or test a Product or to
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      prepare a Product for use, Conveyance or sale, regardless of its
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      medium or how it is expressed. It may include Notices.
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  1.4 'Covered Source' means Source that is explicitly made available
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      under this Licence.
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  1.5 'Product' means any device, component, work or physical object,
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      whether in finished or intermediate form, arising from the use,
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      application or processing of Covered Source.
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  1.6 'Make' means to create or configure something, whether by
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      manufacture, assembly, compiling, loading or applying Covered
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      Source or another Product or otherwise.
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  1.7 'Available Component' means any part, sub-assembly, library or
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      code which:
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       a) is licensed to You as Complete Source under a Compatible
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          Licence; or
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       b) is available, at the time a Product or the Source containing
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          it is first Conveyed, to You and any other prospective
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          licensees
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            i) as a physical part with sufficient rights and
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               information (including any configuration and
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               programming files and information about its
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               characteristics and interfaces) to enable it either to
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               be Made itself, or to be sourced and used to Make the
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               Product; or
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           ii) as part of the normal distribution of a tool used to