libre silicon
Feel free to write here in German or English, we will try to translate everything into English as time permits.

mumble meetings:
2018-04-08
Agenda:

• We need to plan to the test structures on the first mask set
• LWN -Article
  
  

- How open do we want to go -> "as open as possible"
    patents to defend yourself
    try to make everyone play nice
    need to find a license
    Enforcement is an issue
    we have a lawyer onboard who helps us!
    
CMOS patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3356858
Various Options:

•  idea to hand over patents to a foundation to keep it save
  • makes us more agile
  •  can lawsuits be funded 
• Let's run it as a commercial business. Only in this way can we grow and support the OSH community sustainably
  
  

License and transpararency is more important than patents

TODO:
    document HK setup what we can do
    MVP to show possibilities 
        First mask set
        Congress as marker
    Long term goal: help others get started (by providing documentation)

Licenses:

• dual licenses
  • code quality needs to better for free one on (github) to make it attractive to play nice on free code
• viral elements? (compare CC SA or GPL vs BSD)
• Verification of product via license
  
  

Target audience:

• more small players/startups etc
• less the big players who have established process (they get disturbances)
  
  

Revenue channels/License Fees (Name/Brand?)


Library (build up knowledge base)
https://vcs.in-berlin.de/chipforge_stdcelllib/wiki?name=Textbooks
https://vcs.in-berlin.de/chipforge_stdcelllib/wiki?name=Literatur_DE
https://vcs.in-berlin.de/chipforge_stdcelllib/wiki?name=Literature_EN
(OCW/Lecture slides, papers)

Hackathon should be organized soon
- find rooms with sleeping area, shower etc
- at Berlin?
- Target: bring together programmer and chip developer for the tool chain and rise a common understanding of a smooth process
- document it, so it can be reproduced

Development of our future customers
- holding talks about Libre Silicion (GPN in Mai?)
- holding workshops to teach people making chips (Verilog, Design Flow, etc)

Next items to do
- articel LWN