key: ocl-v1
short_name: Open Community License (OCL v1)
name: Open Community License (OCL v1)
category: Non-Commercial
owner: OpenCommunityLIcence
homepage_url: https://github.com/OpenCommunityLicence/OpenCommunityLicence
spdx_license_key: LicenseRef-scancode-ocl-v1
other_urls:
  - https://all3dp.com/4/prusa-releases-core-one-designs-under-new-license-free-to-tinker-dangerous-to-sell/
text: |
  Open Community License (OCL v1)

  OCL pertains to intellectual property applied in licensor‘s products
  and/or its components (hardware and software) which is distributed
  under such, including copyright, design, and patent.

  All licensors‘s copyrights, designs, and patents as far as relevant to
  products and/or its components under OCL are community open, as the aim
  of OCL is to allow open access to community including the essential
  right, the right-to-repair, by giving users complete freedom of use,
  copy, modification, and hack, while promoting a fair competition by
  securing intellectual property rights to prevent vendor locking and
  patent trolling.

  NOTE that any part of the product and/or its component provided under a
  license incompatible with OCL remains unaffected by OCL.

  As an non-commercial END USER

  YOU MAY use, copy, modify, hack the product and/or its components as
  you wish!

  YOU SHOULD support the 3D printing community by sharing your creations
  and modifications.

  If you distribute your creations, modifications, or any such derivatives
  YOU MUST 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.

  As a commercial BUSINESS USER

  YOU MAY use the product and modify it to your use case solely for your
  internal production use.

  YOU MUST NOT modify the product and/or its components for any commercial
  purpose other than your internal production use.

  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.

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  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 Licensor keeps and updates a
  database of products and/or its components licensed under OCL and good
  practice at [link to the database].

  For practical examples of how this license applies, see the examples/ directory.