About Licensing
Credits and 3rd Party works
The most important thing to note is that I, the author of this repo and contained documentation, neither necessarily own nor claim to hold the rights to all materials used herein. All efforts are made to credit outside works as appropriate, including disclosing and meeting the terms of respective licenses (eg Creative Commons Attribution’s credit disclosures ) to the best of my ability to do so and reasonably discover those terms. Where I have failed to do so, it is in no way a suggestion that said works are available to use under any licensing terms I have elected, nor should they be construed as such. Any derivative work is still subject to the original terms, whether or not I have adequately disclosed them. As such I disclaim all warranty of suitability for use in a legal context, and in no way imply responsibility for any legal ramifications of using or developing on my work. Plain English: I’m not legally responsible for takedown notices you receive as a result of using something I (likely ignorantly) failed to properly license - do so at your own (unlikely) risk.
No Warranty
Continuing lack of warranty: no warranty, or guarantees of safety are made or implied for any projects, hardware, software, instructions, references, recommendations, or other materials contained or referenced in this documentation.
All Rights Reserved
At this time, All Rights are reserved for any original material, files, software, hardware and code presented in this repo, and it is offered publicly for the purposes of documentation and instruction, not for commercial development. Plain English: All content by Jayson Brown remains exclusively Jayson Brown’s. This is partially because Creative Commons, the organization, recommends against using their licenses for hardware, which presents a research challenge for discovering the appropriate license. While it is my desire to eventually non-commercially open source the hardware, until such a time as that is resolved and this page updated accordingly, rights are wholly reserved to avoid future licensing conflicts.
Fab Academy Sublicense
A special exception is made, granting a non-exclusive sublicense to the nonprofit Fab Academy, and persons that are actively enrolled in or engaging on behalf of the Fab Academy as part of that work. The effect is almost entirely similar to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, with so-called moral rights reserved broadly, and specifically The Rights of Integrity of Authorship, and Privacy & Publicity reserved. To that end, I reserve all rights to my appearance and the reproduction of my likeness, as well as autobiographical information, which may not be used or reproduced without my explicit permission. I also reserve the right to rescind any licensing for works that compromise Integrity of Authorship.
Example
In practice, this looks like: if I designed a PCB and you incorporate it into a design of another PCB in the shape of a hate symbol, I can decline to be associated with that or have my work incorporated into it; or if technology or concepts I design are used to actively discriminate against groups of people (eg a camera with computer vision algorithm being used to identify and discriminate against people of a protected class), I wholly reserve my right to Integrity of Authorship and will aggressively pursue all my rights to the full extent of the law. My work, while likely minor, has no place in the morally reprehensible. Hypothetically, outside like-circumstances, said right likely wouldn’t be exercised.
⬆️+ CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Beyond that, where not superseded by the above, I release my work from this repo to The Fab Academy, and its active students and agents, under the license available here, known as the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International , or colloquially known by CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. In practice this mostly means you can share and remix the content from here, so long as it’s not for profit and you appropriately credit its source. But do hit the above links for the full restrictions and specifics of that license.