We list that right on the github/top of the page linked. Speed/stability improvements, adding CD support, Macintosh specifics, easier config/use, documentation, community, etc. Checkout the repo for more info.
Creator here. I wanted to give people the ability to have the ability to print them out for personal use or buy from a seller. Early in the project someone attempted to commercially take it over so I chose this licenses. Is it perfect? no. You can of course design your own, but mine are provided under that license. See some projects like Elastic, Sentry, etc have run into similar licensing issues when trying to provide something to the community for free.
I take no issue with you choosing whatever license you want. It's your own work, after all.
My dissatisfaction is only with the Open Hardware claim, present and prominent in what I assume is your website[0]. It has a definition[1], and your choice of license does not meet it.
I do not wish for the meaning of Open Hardware to be diluted, thus the comment.
This same weak argument gets used against "open source", and while I strongly prefer "free software", I still think it's ridiculous how much people make this claim. Get your own terms. Stop trying to make the world a worse place for those who care about freedom, please.
> Making PCBs, soldering components, flashing roms, testing, selling and shipping hardware takes effort. This is true regardless of Open Hardware.
It's a lot easier to upload some zip files to JLCPCB, have them assemble it and then sell them on eBay for 4x the cost than it is to do the initial design.
It seems rare to get any contributions back to hw projects (either in pull requests etc or donations) so it's unsurprising when I see talented people give up or go with non commercial licenses.
The usefulness I find in open source projects is the ability to learn, fix things etc
>It's a lot easier to upload some zip files to JLCPCB, have them assemble it and then sell them on eBay for 4x the cost than it is to do the initial design.
but the author of BlueSCSI didnt do that initial design
> It seems rare to get any contributions back to hw projects (either in pull requests etc or donations) so it's unsurprising when I see talented people give up or go with non commercial licenses.
This is 100% true. Coming from a software side I was surprised that on the embedded and hardware side everyone just forks. I did try to contact the original arscsino project to contribute back but at the time it was idle and I got no response.
I have SleepIQ from sleepnumber, was $299 add on for lifetime subscription. It's interesting but fairly limited. They do have an undocumented API ( https://github.com/erichelgeson/sleepiq ). I could hookup something to poll the API and fire events (sleep/away/restless/etc) but it'd be nice if it was a push vs pull and hook it into existing SmartThings hub or something.
It'll be interesting to watch this as the little and big companies are entering this market at about the same time.
Sleep IQ is definitely the most similar product in the market. We admire what they have done and believe we can take it a step further with more advanced technology and also a product that can fit any mattress regardless of the brand.
The integration with SmartThings is a good point and we hope to see more competitor products moving in this direction as the smart home ecosystem continues to grow. We just announced our integration with SmartThings recently and have already heard from many customers that want to see us integration with Wink next.
