No. It's easy. I develop tools. Some of which are tools I may want to sell to other. if I am dependent on a platform to make money, I don't want to ask permission to do so.
> Permission to do what exactly?
> Was there something before the OCL you could / were planning to do that the OCL now prohibits?
I don't know why is it so difficult for you to conceive based on well known definition of open hardware and the analogy to free software.