BERI OPEN SYSTEMS

BERI Open Systems is a not-for-profit UK Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) supporting the community of academic, educational, industrial, and hobbyist users of the open-source hardware-software designs such as the BERI processor. BERI Open Systems will act as a holder and licenser of open-source hardware-software designs, with a particular interest in research and teaching applications... The community will benefit as... The company will act as an intellectual property holder, receiving donated copyrights and other intellectual property from community members. It will license hardware and software designs as open source such that it can be used without charge by anyone in the world -- and especially by contributing members of the BERI community. Unlike proprietary hardware and software designs, BERI designs are intended to be used in academic and industrial research, as well as for teaching, student projects, and hobbiest use.