Free Manufacturing
Free manufacting is an initiative that promotes the ability of
independent manufacturers to produce and sell products in the
global supply chain. There are many reasons that manufacturing
is difficult or impossible in some domains. The free
manufacturing initiative aims to identity, study, and develop
practices for avoiding these difficulties and impasses. The
free manufacuring initiative provides a definition of a Free
Manufacturing Product.
Free Manufacturing Product
- All software used in the product is Free Software.
- All hardware used in the product is Free Hardware.
- All manufacturing processes used in creating the product are available to the general public.
- All dependencies for manufacturing the product are documented and publicly available.
- All "Jelly Beans" dependencies for manufacturing the product have documented and publicly available interfaces.
- No NDA is required to be signed to manufacture the product.
- No requirement for belonging to a group is required to manufacture the product.
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