Jaguar Licensing Change
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 4:39 am
After giving this careful consideration and after several face to face discussions between a group of traveling FreeEMS developers back in November 2013 along with recent discussions on IRC, I have decided that from this point forward the Jaguar PCB design and schematics will be dual licensed as follows:
Schematic License:
The Jaguar KiCAD .sch schematic files will be under a slightly modified MIT License (the modification is to mention the .sch schematic files specifically). This allows anyone to freely use the KiCAD .sch schematic source files to develop their own schematic and board layout, allowing for the DIY community to modify the schematics to suit their own purpose without further restrictions on the PCB design they create from the schematics in my Jaguar repository. This means that everyone has access to high quality schematics as a start to their own FreeEMS compatible hardware project and they can license their schematics, PCB design and documentation however they wish.
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Jaguar PCB License:
The Jaguar PCB design, layout, documentation and Gerber files will be under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
You are free to:
Under the following terms:
There are permissible exceptions to the above terms and they are specified in the LICENSE.md file in my repository:
https://github.com/DeuceEFI/Jaguar/blob/dev/LICENSE.md
EDIT: Corrected list formatting. 1/31/2014
Schematic License:
The Jaguar KiCAD .sch schematic files will be under a slightly modified MIT License (the modification is to mention the .sch schematic files specifically). This allows anyone to freely use the KiCAD .sch schematic source files to develop their own schematic and board layout, allowing for the DIY community to modify the schematics to suit their own purpose without further restrictions on the PCB design they create from the schematics in my Jaguar repository. This means that everyone has access to high quality schematics as a start to their own FreeEMS compatible hardware project and they can license their schematics, PCB design and documentation however they wish.
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Jaguar PCB License:
The Jaguar PCB design, layout, documentation and Gerber files will be under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
You are free to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
Under the following terms:
- Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. - NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
- No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others
from doing anything the license permits.
There are permissible exceptions to the above terms and they are specified in the LICENSE.md file in my repository:
https://github.com/DeuceEFI/Jaguar/blob/dev/LICENSE.md
EDIT: Corrected list formatting. 1/31/2014