# CERN Open Hardware Licence (OHL) now available on Thingiverse

**URL:** <https://forum.thingiverse.com/t/cern-open-hardware-licence-ohl-now-available-on-thingiverse/29>\
**Category:** What's New\
**Created:** [April 17, 2026, 5:17am UTC](https://forum.thingiverse.com/t/cern-open-hardware-licence-ohl-now-available-on-thingiverse/29 "2026-04-17T05:17:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![thingiro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.thingiverse.com/thingiro/32/12_2.png) [@thingiro](https://forum.thingiverse.com/u/thingiro)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 5:17am UTC](https://forum.thingiverse.com/t/cern-open-hardware-licence-ohl-now-available-on-thingiverse/29/1 "2026-04-17T05:17:46Z")

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The 3 variants of the CERN OHL V2 can now be selected when uploading a Thing to Thingiverse. You can find this on the [upload form](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:0/edit) accessible in the Create button in the top-right corner (Create \> Upload a Thing / Remix).

This was a request from engineers wanting to share their Projects to Thingiverse, and it is a first step towards building a trusted platform for opensource hardware communities.

You can read more about the CERN OHL V2 at this page: [CERN OHL version 2 · Wiki · Open Hardware Repository / Projects / CERN Open Hardware Licence · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/ohwr/project/cernohl/-/wikis/Documents/CERN-OHL-version-2)

Are there other license types you’d like to see being added when uploading a Project?

 ![CERN-OHL-V2-Thingiverse](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/thingiverse/original/1X/41ba8129f2266294ffeab1c0432695140e64ae0d.png)

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**Author:** ![concretedog](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.thingiverse.com/concretedog/32/13_2.png) [@concretedog](https://forum.thingiverse.com/u/concretedog)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 6:48am UTC](https://forum.thingiverse.com/t/cern-open-hardware-licence-ohl-now-available-on-thingiverse/29/2 "2026-04-17T06:48:03Z")

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Excellent, CERN is a great addition. I guess across open source stuff I often see MIT licence particularly for firmwares etc. Might be one to consider.

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**Author:** ![julianstirling](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.thingiverse.com/julianstirling/32/14_2.png) [@julianstirling](https://forum.thingiverse.com/u/julianstirling)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 7:41am UTC](https://forum.thingiverse.com/t/cern-open-hardware-licence-ohl-now-available-on-thingiverse/29/3 "2026-04-17T07:41:00Z")

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Some older projects are still licenced CERN OHL v1, that’s not an OSI approved license though. I agree that MIT is a useful license. “Unlicense” can be useful too.

There is also the fact that there are quite a few versions of things like GNU GPL (v2-only, v2-or-later, v3-only, v3-or-later), there is also BSD 2 clause and BSD 3 clause. But this gets complicated and can turn people off from selecting a license.

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**Author:** ![ellafoxo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@ellafoxo](https://forum.thingiverse.com/u/ellafoxo)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2026, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.thingiverse.com/t/cern-open-hardware-licence-ohl-now-available-on-thingiverse/29/4 "2026-04-23T15:39:01Z")

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Easily the best new addition to the site since SC took over. Thank you so much.