- cross-posted to:
- cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
If they actually follow through on making the Slate as privacy friendly as they claim in this article, and it doesn’t have any major flaws, I’m gonna go ahead and say this is perhaps one of the best options for someone in need of a mini-truck/SUV hybrid.
How is the manual licensed? Does it use a copy left license like GNU or Creative Commons?
If so, it’s open source. If not it’s not.
part of the reason i picked that one is because my local library has old car repair manuals and that’s one of them. I legit don’t know anything about its copyright (you can use buzzwords but that is the legal term) but like, this stuff has never been that hard to find.
Making it easy to find is not copyleft. And copyleft is a concept that doesn’t exist in the concept of copyright.
Making something copyleft means I and you would have permission to make copies of the designs and the manual and make changes to them and sell a product based off of those designs. And that I would also require the same from my designs.
It’s a license that encourages collaboration (I take someone else’s work rather than reinvent the wheel, and if I improve it I share that improved design back with the world and let them do the same) rather than competition (where the original designer would sue me for using or improving their design)