# CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 — Weakly Reciprocal (CERN-OHL-W v2)

SPDX-License-Identifier: CERN-OHL-W-2.0

This component of the project (all hardware design files — CAD, DXF, STEP, BOM, fabrication plans, schematics, mechanical drawings, jig and fixture designs) is licensed under the CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 — Weakly Reciprocal.

The canonical license text is available at:
- https://ohwr.org/cern_ohl_w_v2.txt
- https://spdx.org/licenses/CERN-OHL-W-2.0.html

## Summary (informative — not a substitute for the full license)

The CERN-OHL-W v2 grants permission to use, study, modify, manufacture, and distribute the licensed designs, subject to:
- Attribution of the original licensor
- Provision of the complete source (design files) when distributing products made from the design
- Preservation of license and notices
- Weakly reciprocal copyleft: modifications to the licensed design must be released under the same license; *but* externally-sourced components ("Available Components") may remain under their own licenses

## How to fetch the full text

```bash
curl -L https://ohwr.org/cern_ohl_w_v2.txt -o LICENSE-HARDWARE-FULL.txt
```

Sprinters: please fetch the full text and commit `LICENSE-HARDWARE-FULL.txt` alongside this summary file.