An introduction to Open Hardware by Andrew Katz.
Andrew Katz is Joint Managing Partner and Head of Technology at Moorcrofts. He is one of the UK’s leading free and open-source lawyers and renowned worldwide for his specialisms in Open Hardware. In 2021, he was named as a top 100 influencer in Open Hardware in the UK on the OpenUK's Honours List and in 2020, he was nominated as the Open Hardware expert for the winning team for the European Union’s flagship policy research study on Open Source software and Open Hardware. He also drafted the popular Solderpad Open Hardware licence, and is on the core drafting team of the CERN Open Hardware Licence.
During the video, Andrew covers:
What is Open Hardware?
What is open source software?
Is there a distinction between open hardware and open source hardware? What do we mean by hardware?
What do we mean by open silicon?
What is an FPGA?
How do you configure a FPGA?
What is RISC-V?
Is RISC-V open hardware?
Is there much difference between open source software and open source hardware?
Why the interest in open hardware?
What were the policy recommendations?
What about open hardware licensing?
What licenses Andrew Katz has been involved with?
What are the challenges of open hardware?
Which licences do you recommend?
The video is a director's cut from the SUDO academic/industry conference held at the University of Skövde on 27th and 28th May 2021: https://www.his.se/en/research/inform...