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OpenEnergyMonitor is copyright © 2009,2010,2011 the OpenEnergyMonitor researchers (see developers), and other contributors.

Principal author:

Trystan Lea

Ogoronwy, Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, North Wales, UK, LL48 6DJ

  e-mail - trystan.lea@googlemail.com

OpenEnergyMonitor is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation; either Version 3 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.

OpenEnergyMonitor is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public Licence for more details.

For this purpose the words "software" and "library" in the GNU General Public Licence are taken to mean any and all computer programs computer files images data results documents and all other copyright information available from the OpenEnergyMonitor project.

The copyright covers the neologism "OpenEnergyMonitor" in upper, lower, or any mix of cases in any typeface, also covered by the GPL. Anyone can use them freely in any way they choose, but they may not be registered as trademarks or restricted in any other way.

You can read the GNU General Public Licence here. This page you are reading now introduces the licence for the entire OpenEnergyMonitor project; that licence applies to all of it; if the links to the licence do not work, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02110 , or see

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

 

Creative Commons License

Hardware designs (schematics and CAD) files are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and follow the terms of the OSHW (Open-source hardware) Statement of Principles 1.0.

All documentation on OpenEnergyMonitor is subject to GNU Free Documentation License 

Overview of open-source licenses by Adafruit http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2009/03/28/open-source-hardware-overview-slides/