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How much of WARG’s information is open source?

Background:

Goal of open source licences in general: Preemptively give permission to the public to use, redistribute, and modify the publically accessible technical information.

• May come with restrictions: Acknowledgement, non commercial only, any incorporation of information must also be under the same licence, etc.

If the technical information is publically accessible but not under open source, it retains copyright by default (which means a 3rd party needs to request and receive written permission before copying/modifying the work). For example:

• Datasheet for part

• User manual for product

• Documentation for API usage

WARG:

• Software: Open source under BSD-4 (decided in 2021)

  • BSD-4 conditions:

    • Acknowledgement in source, binary, documentation, advertizing, and marketing

    • May not use the copyright holder’s name and contributors as endorsement or promotion, unless permission is given in writing

• Hardware:

  • Schematics are on GitHub: Nolan Haines Nolan Haines Jerry Tian Mena Azab Neel Patel Neel Patel

  • CAD is not publically available: No licence by default

• Documentation: No licence

• Logs: No licence

• Discussion (e.g. Discord): No licence

• Marketing (e.g. social media, posters): No licence

• Other (am I missing anything)?