Open Compute Project Hardware License (Permissive) This license is intended to promote the adoption of technology specifications for computer hardware products. This license covers the use, copying, modification and distribution of hardware specifications, and the manufacture, use, sale and import of products based on such specifications. Specifications are copyrightable works, and therefore must be used under a copyright license. Specifications also may describe features or functionality whose implementation embodies patentable inventions, and therefore, if patents read on those inventions, products that implement a specification must be made, used, sold or imported under a license to any patents that are necessary to implement those features or functionality