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if you really want to build your own, buy a kit car. they're cheaper.
Any chance those kits are open source?
There have been a handful of open source car projects like the Tabby EVO, but most of them seem to have stalled out somewhat. The Tabby EVO website appears to be down, though you can see it through the wayback machine.
Kit cars based on common off-the-shelf parts may be an easier route for people wanting to build their own car from scratch.
I mean it comes with a manual how to build it and the one I'm looking at is a 67 lotus. You tell me how that open sources because software is not my field
How is the manual licensed? Does it use a copy left license like GNU or Creative Commons?
If so, it's open source. If not it's not.
part of the reason i picked that one is because my local library has old car repair manuals and that's one of them. I legit don't know anything about its copyright (you can use buzzwords but that is the legal term) but like, this stuff has never been that hard to find.
Making it easy to find is not copyleft. And copyleft is a concept that doesn't exist in the concept of copyright.
Making something copyleft means I and you would have permission to make copies of the designs and the manual and make changes to them and sell a product based off of those designs. And that I would also require the same from my designs.
It's a license that encourages collaboration (I take someone else's work rather than reinvent the wheel, and if I improve it I share that improved design back with the world and let them do the same) rather than competition (where the original designer would sue me for using or improving their design)
Automobiles is one of those area I feel like Chipotle copy left does not work in practice. It's a two ton death machine, so we really want contributions by Claude?
Copyleft licenses wave warranties.
And there's loads of open source projects that don't allow AI contributions. Just because someone writes a shitty PR doesn't mean it will be merged.
See, PR? Merge? That's software bullshit. This is a conversation about hardware.
Lol have you ever done open hardware?
Hardware designs in OpenSCAD or FreeCAD live in git repos. And, yes, the community makes changed via PRs