rusefi_documentation/It's-complicated.md

# Open Source? It's Complicated

rusEFI [_firmware_](https://github.com/rusefi/rusefi) is completely open source software see [license](https://github.com/rusefi/rusefi/blob/master/firmware/license.txt).

Many of the **universal** rusEFI [boards](Hardware) are open source hardware.

As of Jan of 2022 rusEFI LLC is experimenting with vehicle-specific boards being proprietary, not open source hardware. while [Hellen One framework](https://github.com/andreika-git/hellen-one) is open source, only [Hellen 121 VAG](https://github.com/rusefi/hellen121vag) and [Helen 154 Hyundai](https://github.com/rusefi/hellen154hyundai) are open source. For the majority of Hellen vehicle specific boards we only publish complete schematics while not publishing gerbers and BOMs.  

TL,DR: it' not that complicated:

Software: open

Platform: open

Wire-in boards: open

PnP: mostly not
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Updated It's complicated (markdown) 2021-05-27 14:32:40 -07:00			`rusEFI [_firmware_](https://github.com/rusefi/rusefi) is completely open source software see [license](https://github.com/rusefi/rusefi/blob/master/firmware/license.txt).`
Updated It's complicated (markdown) 2021-05-27 14:26:50 -07:00
Updated It's complicated (markdown) 2021-05-27 14:30:58 -07:00			`Many of the universal rusEFI [boards](Hardware) are open source hardware.`

Updated It's complicated (markdown) 2022-01-15 15:20:45 -08:00			`As of Jan of 2022 rusEFI LLC is experimenting with vehicle-specific boards being proprietary, not open source hardware. while [Hellen One framework](https://github.com/andreika-git/hellen-one) is open source, only [Hellen 121 VAG](https://github.com/rusefi/hellen121vag) and [Helen 154 Hyundai](https://github.com/rusefi/hellen154hyundai) are open source. For the majority of Hellen vehicle specific boards we only publish complete schematics while not publishing gerbers and BOMs.`
Updated It's complicated (markdown) 2021-05-27 15:05:51 -07:00
			`TL,DR: it' not that complicated:`

			`Software: open`

			`Platform: open`

			`Wire-in boards: open`

automated md lint fixes 2023-01-02 11:22:23 -08:00			`PnP: mostly not`