>Hardware is licensed sperately under CC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. Refer to `hw/README.md`.
Therefore, despite claims of "open hardware", it is actually not so (not OSHW). A shame.
This seems to be fully intentional, as the site goes on to provide a list of "authorized" sellers. If you're not one of these "authorized" sellers, then you cannot legally make and sell this hardware.
Thank you for distributing the designs. The choice of license is completely yours to make.
That is what the comment above should have said instead of complaining.
My dissatisfaction is only with the Open Hardware claim, present and prominent in what I assume is your website[0]. It has a definition[1], and your choice of license does not meet it.
I do not wish for the meaning of Open Hardware to be diluted, thus the comment.
[0]: https://scsi.blue/
I therefore do not see anything wrong with selling Open Hardware.
As everybody can do this, the hardware itself is commoditized, and society at large does benefit.
It's a lot easier to upload some zip files to JLCPCB, have them assemble it and then sell them on eBay for 4x the cost than it is to do the initial design.
It seems rare to get any contributions back to hw projects (either in pull requests etc or donations) so it's unsurprising when I see talented people give up or go with non commercial licenses.
The usefulness I find in open source projects is the ability to learn, fix things etc
but the author of BlueSCSI didnt do that initial design
"BlueSCSI created by erichelgeson is a fork of ArdSCSino-stm32" https://github.com/erichelgeson/BlueSCSI
https://github.com/ztto/ArdSCSino-stm32/blob/master/ArdSCSin...
This is 100% true. Coming from a software side I was surprised that on the embedded and hardware side everyone just forks. I did try to contact the original arscsino project to contribute back but at the time it was idle and I got no response.