Open Source Licenses
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Watch this video for a deeper understanding of the below licenses.
These are general guidelines not instructions. The below licenses can be used in many ways on different instruments. Read them to understand how.
For Hardware
Apply one of these licenses to the hardware, CAD files, schematics, PCB's etc.
- Go to Open Source Hardware and put the logo on your hardware, hardware designs, schematics, etc and provide some kind of license file with it.
- Go to CERN Open Hardware License and follow the instructions.
For Software, Code, Music and Video
- Creative Commons Craft your own license, you choose what attributes you want to have associated with it.
- GPL Once under GPL derivatives must remain under GPL.
- FreeBSD Once under FreeBSD, derivative licences can be changed.
Public Domain
- You can declared something into the Public Domain by providing a legal statement with it that states so. Once in the Public Domain it cannot be copy righted.