Add licensing: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 hardware, GPL-2.0 firmware
Hardware and docs get CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 - build it, change it, share changes, no commercial products. Firmware has to be GPL-2.0 because it derives from QMK, and the GPL forbids adding a NonCommercial restriction, so that half permits commercial use whether we like it or not. LICENSE.md records both, plus the two honest caveats: NC means this is not open source by the OSI or OSHWA definitions, and NonCommercial is a vague term whose enforcement falls on the copyright holder. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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@@ -22,13 +22,16 @@ maps across the three boards.
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## Licence
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Not yet chosen. Until one is added, default copyright applies: you may read
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this, but not build, fork or reuse it. If that isn't the intent, add
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CERN-OHL-S or TAPR OHL for the hardware, and GPL-2.0 for anything derived from
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QMK.
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**Hardware and documentation: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](LICENSES/CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.txt).**
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Build one, modify it, share your modifications under the same terms — but no
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commercial products.
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The PDFs under `Documents/` are vendor datasheets (WCH, ST) redistributed for
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convenience and are **not** covered by whatever licence this repo adopts.
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**Firmware: [GPL-2.0-or-later](LICENSES/GPL-2.0.txt)**, forced by QMK, which
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permits commercial use. See [`LICENSE.md`](LICENSE.md) for why the two can't be
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the same, and for the caveats on what "NonCommercial" actually means.
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Datasheets under `Documents/` are third-party vendor PDFs and aren't covered by
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either.
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@@ -337,6 +340,6 @@ Per house convention. This one is unusually clean:
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scrubbing needed, unlike most repos here.
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- [ ] Confirm no JLC/LCSC account identifiers end up in fab exports.
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- [x] Scanned: no LAN topology, credentials or personal data in files or history.
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- [ ] **Licence still unchosen** — see the Licence section above.
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- [x] Licence chosen: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (hardware) + GPL-2.0 (firmware).
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- [ ] Vendor datasheets in `Documents/` are redistributed third-party PDFs.
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Consider linking instead of vendoring if that matters to you.
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