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Re:DIY Tractor Repair Runs Afoul Of Copyright Law by netfire on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @12:08PM (#10079958)
You may want to check out this TED talk and the corresponding site. I think its basically what you are talking about.

- http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski?language=en

- http://opensourceecology.org/portfolio/tractor/

Re:DIY Tractor Repair Runs Afoul Of Copyright Law by cconcepts on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @12:24PM (#10080082)
Thanks for the resources - great TED video
Re:DIY Tractor Repair Runs Afoul Of Copyright Law by SolarNet on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @01:15PM (#10080540)
The exact problem in this article was the reason opensourceecology was made in the first place.