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Derek Sherrell shows a low cost, open source house that he built in 90 days. He is giving away the plans for free for anyone who wants to build their own.

Open source is a wonderful concept that should be applied to everything, not just software.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Did the guy explicitly say in his video that he intended these to be "open source?" 'Cause otherwise, as far as I can tell, there's nothing that actually gives anybody else permission to copy, modify, and redistribute. In other words, they're proprietary "freeware," at best.

The blueprint title block needs to have a field that explicitly names the license (Creative Commons or whatever), because otherwise it's © Design Residential, Inc. All Rights Reserved, by default.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

he does mention they "open source everything they do to make housing more attainable and more affordable" at 10:48

but I agree they need to put up a proper license