Redistribution Policy
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- Daniel Puratich
Overview
TLDR: Do not redistribute WARG resources you did not contribute to as your own work.
Lots of WARG information is publicly accessible as we want to share our knowledge for all to see. Our software is offered with clear licenses that should be followed. Please do not copy our Confluence pages directly (or have AI rewrite them) to your personal website. If our documentation was useful in completion of a personal project, simply cite our documentation as a source! Proper citation is greatly appreciated and goes a long way.
Github Code Licensing
Every GitHub repository owned by WARG contains a file named LICENSE containing the text of the active license. Normally this is the following BSD-4 Clause Licence:
BSD 4-Clause License
Copyright (c) 2024, Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group (WARG)
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must
display the following acknowledgement:
This product includes software developed by Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group (WARG).
4. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its
contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY COPYRIGHT HOLDER "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO
EVENT SHALL COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS;
OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.False Claims
In a similar manner to Member Definition existing to help counter false claims, this document is meant to clearly state our policy against stealing the work of others and passing it off as your own. It’s embarrassing.
If you contributed toward a WARG project then it’s totally reasonable, if not encouraged, to claim your involvement. The problem is when people with copy pasta some of our general blog posts such as Asynchronous vs Synchronous Protocols to their personal website.
Future Improvements
In the future for hardware designs, consider for hardware https://www.oshwa.org/definition/ to follow?
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