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Hardware licensing

Open reference hardware.
Permissive by design.

ESPFlight Hardware Reference designs are licensed under CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 — Permissive (CERN-OHL-P-2.0), supporting study, modification, building, distribution, and independent products subject to the license terms.

SPDX · CERN-OHL-P-2.0CERN OHL v2 — Permissive

The hardware license applies to the covered design files. ESPFlight name, logo, and brand assets are governed separately.

Official CERN source ↗Brand Policy
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What this means for ESPFlight builders.

This summary is for convenience. The official CERN-OHL-P-2.0 license text controls.

STUDY

Learn from the design

You may inspect and study the covered Hardware Reference source under the license terms.

BUILD

Make hardware

You may use the covered design to build reference hardware, prototypes, educational systems, kits, and independent products subject to CERN-OHL-P-2.0.

MODIFY

Create your own design

You may modify and adapt the covered source. Keep the notices and modification information required by the license.

BRAND

Use your own identity

The open hardware license does not license the ESPFlight name or logo. Independent products should use their own branding.

Official license

CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 — Permissive

SPDX identifier: CERN-OHL-P-2.0. ESPFlight uses the official license in unmodified form for the covered Hardware Reference source.

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ESPFlight notice

The ESPFlight Hardware Reference may be studied, modified, built, distributed, and used as the foundation for independent projects and products subject to CERN-OHL-P-2.0.

The ESPFlight name, logo, visual identity, and other brand assets are not included in the open hardware license.

Independent products based on ESPFlight should use their own names and branding and must not imply official endorsement or status.

Definitive text

CERN identifies the current Version 2 license text linked from its CERN OHL page as definitive. Use the official CERN source for the complete unmodified license text.

CERN Open Hardware Licence ↗

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