This repository contains the Open Community License (OCL v1) - a license designed to allow open access to community including the essential right, the right-to-repair, while promoting fair competition.
OCL pertains to intellectual property applied in the licensor’s products and/or its components (hardware and software) which is distributed under such, including copyright, design, and patent.
All licensor’s copyrights, designs, and patents as far as relevant to products and/or its components under OCL are community open. The aim of OCL is to allow open access to the community, including the essential right-to-repair, by giving users complete freedom of use, copy, modification, and hacking, while promoting fair competition by securing intellectual property rights to prevent vendor locking and patent trolling.
Note: Any part of the product and/or its component provided under a license incompatible with OCL remains unaffected by OCL.
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YOU MAY use, copy, modify, and hack the product and/or its components as you wish!
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YOU SHOULD support the 3D printing community by sharing your creations and modifications.
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YOU MUST, if you distribute your creations, modifications, or any such derivatives, do so under OCL or any non-commercial, share-alike license allowing other community members to do everything that YOU MAY. This does not concern your creations and modifications that are not derived from the product and/or its components.
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YOU MAY use the product and modify it for your use case solely for your internal production use.
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YOU MUST NOT modify the product and/or its components for any commercial purpose other than your internal production use.
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YOU MUST NOT copy or in any way replicate the product and/or its components for any commercial purpose (excluding your internal right-to-repair) without obtaining a separate business license or repair license.
Licensor’s products and/or its components under OCL MUST NOT be subject to any systematic or automated text and/or data mining or other text and/or data collection activity in relation to the product without explicit permission.
To promote ease of understanding of OCL, the Licensor keeps and updates a database of products and/or its components licensed under OCL and good practices.
For practical scenarios demonstrating how the OCL applies, please refer to the examples directory.