Open source optics
Open Source Optics refers to optics / opto-electronics / fiber optic designs that is designed in the same fashion as free and open source software (FOSS). Open source optics is part of the open source culture that takes the open source ideas to fields other than software.
The term has primarily been used to reflect the free release of information about the optical design, such as construction or integration of the active and passive optical components in order to make a complete Optical system. The designs sometimes include hardware and software which would typically be a open source hardware and Open source softwareresspectively.
Licenses
Rather than creating a new license, some open optics projects simply use existing, open source software licenses.[1]
See also
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- Amateur radio and Amateur television
- DIY
- Electronic design automation
- Engineers Without Borders
- FreeCAD (software)
- Free content
- Free software
- Homebrew Computer Club
- Graphics hardware and FOSS
- Open CASCADE - software development platform freely available in open source.
- Open content
- Open design - Open-source physical design with a wider focus
- Open source
- Open source software
References
- ↑ From OpenCollector's "License Zone": GPL used by Free Model Foundry and ESA Sparc; other licenses used by Free-IP Project, LART (defunct), GNUBook (defunct).
External links
Communities
- Open Hardware (Wikia)
- DebianWiki
- P2P Foundations
- Open Innovation Projects
- Harkopen (News, Projects, Tutorials)
- 2009 Grounding Open Source Hardware (GOSH!) summit
Projects
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- OpenHardware
- Simply RISC S1 Core (EETimes article)
- Daily Planet Books of Cool Ideas (Books)
- List of open hardware projects compiled as part of the 2009 Grounding Open Source Hardware (GOSH!) summit