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The OpenPilot code is licensed under the GPLv3. There are a few minor exceptions to this so please see
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the headers of all source code for copyright and license information. The full text of the GPLv3 can be
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read here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
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Artwork is licensed under the Creative Commons BY-SA v3 license.
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Documentation including translations is also licensed under the Creative Commons BY-SA v3 license.
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For details please see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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Licenses for the hardware files are included in the directories that contain the hardware, not all items
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are under the same license and you must check the files for each individual hardware design. Please note
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that some of the hardware files are licensed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA v3 license, this is a
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non-commercial license. OpenPilot is purely a non-profit hobby project with zero commercial intent. If you
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just want people to work for free or do your R&D for zero cost, please find a project that allows this as
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that not what OpenPilot is about. We are hobbyists and we want to share our work with fellow hobbyists,
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additionally we need to ensure the future of the project and make sure it is sustainable.
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If you wish to sell/distribute OpenPilot hardware or derivatives of OpenPilot hardware that are under a
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non-commercial license, please get in touch with one of the members of OpenPilot Foundation's
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administration committee. We can then negotiate a license waiver where a portion of the profits are donated
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to the OpenPilot Project to ensure its survival and future progression. Please note that this is in
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reference to PCB and Schematic designs. For people wishing to combine OpenPilot in to a Ready to Fly
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solution, this is perfectly fine as long as OpenPilot PCBs are bought from the OpenPilot project or one
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of the approved distributors.
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For details the non-commercial license please see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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A quick summary of what this license talk means, firstly using any work that is licensed under a form of
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the Creative Commons BY license, requires that credit is to be given. The SA or Share Alike part of the
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license means that you must also use the same license in any work derived from the work under this license.
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Hardware
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The items under the non-commercial license means exactly that: they are for non-commercial use only and
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any derivatives that are made are also covered by the same non-commercial license. The hardware files
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under a non-commercial license are for reference and for fellow hobbyists; they are not to be used to
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generate profit of any kind. Please note that even the OpenPilot project its self is a non-profit project.
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For all items both non-commercial and items that allows commercial use, the OP logo must be placed on any
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work or derivative work and be clearly visible. If any web addresses are present on the hardware, these
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are also required to remain on any replications or any derivative work.
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Documentation
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In documentation, authors names must be kept along with any logos. If documentation is for a physical
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product such as a schematic, the OpenPilot logo should be shown and any web addresses also displayed on
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the final physical hardware it was derived from.
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Artwork
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If artwork is to be reused, the OpenPilot project should be credited. If for example this is a software
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application, credit should be given on the application splash screen or in a separate part of the
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application that is visible to users. For example the Help/About screen.
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Contact Us
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If you are unsure, please contact one of the OpenPilot Foundation's administrators. Additionally, if you
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plan to use parts of the OpenPilot project in your own work, we would appreciate it if you get in touch
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with us anyway, it is possible we could combine efforts or have some work already in progress that might
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be helpful. This of course is our baby and we want to see what great things people do with it as well.
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A final note, OpenPilot is a non-profit for fun project and we have only volunteers. A great deal of time,
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money and effort has been donated to this project; please respect the people that are part of it and their
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generosity. OpenPilot is funded entirely by the generous people who donate money and time to the community
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and help it grow. Giving full and proper credit is not only a legal requirement of the CC-BY-SA license,
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it is also the right thing to do.
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Buying hardware from the OpenPilot project is very important to the survival and continuing progress of
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the project, a project like OpenPilot is extremely expensive to produce.
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