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Derek Sherrell shows a low cost, open source house that he built in 90 days. He is giving away the plans for free for anyone who wants to build their own.

Open source is a wonderful concept that should be applied to everything, not just software.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Architectural blueprints have been explicitly covered by copyright in the US since 1990, but were likely implicitly covered before then.

He could always provide an open-source license before claiming that he is "open sourcing" his designs. You could always check for a license before claiming that something is open-source. Putting the onus on people after the fact to make those previous claims true doesn't make any sense.