[usamaabid]

Hi John, I totally agree and we are inline with the mission of protecting open source projects and helping design owners maintain copyright ownership. We are even exploring avenues to work with industry leaders and lawyers to develop new open source licenses for open hardware to help protect the projects completely.

I am sorry for this language in our terms and policies, which shouldn't have been there in first place. We adapted the terms of Heroku's Terms of Service which are maintained under CC license, as engineers we were more focused on product features initially. I will get it fixed and make sure they designs stay the property of the owners and owners maintain copyright ownership, and they have explicit discretion of licensing it the way they want.

[elcritch]

Thank you for being responsive! That said, the language quoted by the parent doesn't appear to grant "ownership" as the parent implies, unless I'm missing something? Still, it'd be nice to have it clearly stated.

Secondly, do you know if there is a place for founders to find ToS like these? Or do you just copy them from providers with CC licenses? A while back there was a project with lawyers annotating legal licenses in a wiki/git that was a great idea.

[usamaabid]

Agreed and yes its good to state it more clearly.

I wasn’t able to find any best resources of ToS. The best option was adapting these ToS covered under CC licenses.

[usamaabid]

The project would have been great. Because this one of the biggest struggle initially.