Reply To: Open Source Woodworking
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Well, this is an old post, but something here tickled my fancy.
My take on what Kevin referred to on the original post, “Open Source Woodworking” IS what Paul Sellers does. By openly teaching the technique, plus sharing the step by step process to building a bench/chest/chair, he is saying “here’s the source of this chair, if you follow these 58 steps, you can make your own.”
The content licensing and wherever the thread went to after the first post, are secondary to the concept of making useful stuff and sharing it to enable others to learn and build on. That’s the spirit of Open Source. Copyright is a separate, ugly, restrictive, outdated beast.