# The CERN Open Hardware Licence for FPGA Designs

- Institution: CERN
- Speaker: Javier Serrano
- Year: 2026
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3025789)
- Licence: [CERN](https://copyright.web.cern)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Version 2 of the CERN Open Hardware Licence was published in 2020 and approved by OSI in 2021. During its drafting, a great deal of thought and discussions were devoted to catering for the specificities of IC and FPGA design. The licence comes in three variants in order to give these communities appropriate tools for sharing in the three usual regimes: permissive (P), weakly-reciprocal (W) and strongly-reciprocal (S). The talk will cover the basics of licensing, differences between software, hardware and documentation licensing and practicalities such as how to use each of the licence variants in FPGA designs. The CERN OHL v2 was a community effort with many designers and legal experts involved. The presentation will also discuss the importance of open-sourcing, the new Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at CERN and how it can help FPGA designers share their work efficiently.

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## Lectures

1. [The CERN Open Hardware Licence for FPGA Designs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3025789/ac5be8c39383), 29 min (CERN's player)