I am preparing to release a design under the Open Source Hardware Association definition. By releasing a design this way you allow the electronic maker community to freely share and use the design. When following the community rules for open hardware, you can mark your equipment with the open source hardware logo. The logo itself is released under a Creative Commons licence (CC-SA) and is likewise free to copy and use, if you follow the rules.
While the OSHWA website links the logo in KiCAD and several other formats, it does not provide the logo in Eagle format. Off to the web to find an Eagle library with the logo… Hmmm… Found one, but it has issues.
The Open Source Hardware Association logoThere are a couple versions out there on the web. The one most commonly found to was created by NBitWonder. This has a couple issues… While it is very faithful to the official logo it is built from thousands of apertures. Running the CAM processor on it chokes, and chokes hard. While the PCB may take a couple seconds to process the CAM without it, place this logo on the PCB and be prepared to take several minutes to process the CAM. With the NBitWonder version the file sizes grow significantly as you would expect. My GenPIC PCB overlay Gerber file grows from 16kb to over 250kb to accommodate the logo.
