Open Source

Context-aware physical spaces
make sense of our reality.
The open source model
makes sense for their reality.

What?

Open source is a model where the source code and documentation for a product is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution.

We make ours freely available on our GitHub.

Why?

Open source is the only model which can foster the emergence and evolution of ubiquitous, interoperable context-aware physical spaces.

It's as simple as that.

How?

Open source software is distributed under a license. Ours is distributed under the permissive MIT License, while any software dependencies are distributed under the same, or a compatible, license.

You can—and should—read the MIT License in its entirety below.

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2023 reelyActive

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

A fool to open source?

For April Fool's Day 2016, we joked about "accidentally" open sourcing our code base, and mused about the consequences thereof.

Read our blog post

Questions?

No We believe that your data is your data, and that context-aware physical spaces should unlock the value of the data you choose to share. How you choose to share your data is up to you.

No The MIT License is a permissive (non-copyleft) license which guarantees the freedoms to use, modify and redistribute while permitting proprietary derivative works under different licensing terms. A copyleft license, such as GPL, would instead restrict derivate works to the same license, in order to perpetuate the guarantee of these freedoms.

No The MIT License serves to guarantee you freedoms. Artificially imposing rent-seeking constraints is most certainly not our philosophy. Learn more about our business if you're curious as to how we make money.

Open Source

Context-aware physical spaces make sense of our reality. The open source model makes sense for their reality.