Build with me
Everything I make is meant to be rebuilt and improved. This is what that means in detail.
Build it
You may download, build, print and have made the software, schematics and 3D models for your own use, not for profit. Adapting it to your own boat is free.
Improve it
Report bugs, suggest ideas or send in an improvement yourself on GitHub. Every contribution is credited by name.
Commercial
Selling, installing for payment or building it into your own product is only possible with my permission. Get in touch and we will agree on terms.
Build it
You may download everything I publish, build it, print it or have it made by a print farm or PCB manufacturer. For yourself, your own boat, your friends and your club, as long as no profit is made.
You may adapt it to your situation. If you share the adapted version, the maker's name stays with it and the same terms apply.
Software: PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0. Hardware, schematics, 3D models and documentation: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. If a repository contains a LICENSE file, that takes precedence over this page.
Improve it
Found a bug, have an idea for an extension, or made an improvement? Great. Open an issue for a report or question, or send a pull request with your change. New to GitHub? Use the contact form and I will help you get started.
Your contribution is credited by name. By submitting it you give me the right to include it in a commercial version of the project too. I record that per project in a short contributor statement.
Commercial
Do you want to sell something I made, install it for payment or build it into your own product? That is possible, but only after talking to me. In principle I am the only one who works with it commercially.
If someone makes a major improvement, I am happy to make a fair agreement about it. Think of a fee, a share of the revenue or a free-form arrangement, depending on what the contribution means. I put such agreements in writing beforehand.
Open, but not free of conditions
Strictly speaking this is not open source in the OSI sense, because that always allows commercial use. My work is open to read, build and improve, with commercial use arranged separately. That is why I call it “open and buildable”.
The licence texts are standard third-party texts and have not been checked by a lawyer yet. If you have serious commercial plans, we will put the arrangements in writing together first.