 Considerable interdisciplinary research is also being produced around locally manufactured small wind turbines, studying their technical as well as social, organizational, economic, cultural and environmental aspects,.Locally manufactured small wind turbines, being small-scale, low-cost, socially-embedded, adoptive to local contexts and based on the open sharing of knowledge, have been framed under or associated with the perspectives of appropriate or intermediate technology, convivial technology, degrowth, open design and open manufacturing.In terms of licenses, although the available design manuals are technically open-source, they are not published under a particular commons-oriented license.