Licensing and Monetization of our Open Air Quality Monitors
All the AirGradient’s founders have been affected by the severe air pollution in Southeast Asia, and from the start we have worked with disadvantaged communities and provided them with affordable and high-quality air quality monitoring.
We have invested tens of thousands of dollars developing our indoor and outdoor air quality projects and are very committed to continuing to support these open-source projects and keep them updated. As we do not receive any grants or contributions, we have paid for these developments through the sales of our air quality kits and other commercial monitors. We appreciate everyone who purchased one of our kits and helped us achieve our objectives.
We recently decided to license all Open AirGradient open-source and open-hardware air quality projects under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License see CC BY-SA 4.0 Licensing Terms and Conditions. The licence covers the enclosure files, schematics, PCB files, and firmware, thus providing you with all the resources necessary to build a robust, accurate, and reliable air quality monitor.
We believe that the CC BY-SA license is the most suitable because it permits our project to flourish while honouring our efforts and commitments, thereby ensuring the longevity of the project. We also think that by including share-alike and attribution requirements in our licensing terms, we can disqualify unscrupulous individuals and entities from misappropriating our collective work.
