The terms and conditions for using the Initiative website are as follows:

 

1. All projects on the OSAEI website are made freely available to the public for personal, non-commercial use only. Any commercial use or commercialization efforts of any design submitted to this website must be licensed and appropriate license fees paid. (The definition for "commercial use" is "if you receive compensation of any type or nature for it, it's commercial use.") For more information on commercial licensing, click here.

2. We assume no responsibility for what you do with the information on this website, nor do we assume any liability for what happens as a result of the use of information on this website. No warranties or fitness for any particular purpose are specified or implied. Nothing on this website is intended for use in life-support systems, and although all safety-related projects must by definition include safe failure avenues and fallbacks, we can not and do not guarantee any project will operate safely in any implementation. In slightly more comedic terms, we're not responsible for you wrecking your car or frying its electrical system, or any damage you do to your possessions, property, body, state of mind, or sanity by building and implementing any projects posted here.

3. Any information posted on the OSAEI message board is the property of its respective poster, but by posting information here you are posting into the public domain and specifically waive any claim to whether any posted information may be used. Posting on the Initiative site does not create any form of agreement or understanding between yourself and us. Any contributor may take and implement any information posted here without compensation or obligation to the poster, so long as there is no existing legal encumbrance (e.g., an active patent) to the use of such information. If you'd like to be credited for your ideas, become a collaborator, or better still, become a contributor and turn ideas into reality.

4. Any views expressed may not necessarily be representative of OSAEI's operations or policies.

5. Usage of the message board is subject to its own rules, and these are posted on the board itself. By posting on the message board you are agreeing to abide by those rules. The moderators have rather liberal discretion to police and protect the board, and they can and will ban transgressors.