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Re: Please open source your code!

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Originally Posted by Robby Unruh View Post
How strict is this open source rule? Would you get penalized for essentially writing a previous years code? (ie; same task, written differently)
And how would a team that uses the default code every year end up?
In my interpretation of the rule, as long as the code you are using is available for other FRC teams to use the rule is satisfied. Therefore open-sourcing a library which you developed this year would allow you to use it in future years (at least that is how my team has understood the rules).

My team has placed all of our code and documentation into one place located here: http://tinyurl.com/frc2022docs. This site contains all of our code since our founding in 2007 under the area called "Programming Documents" and it contains our documentation area which we are in the process of creating. We saw a need for the documentation from year to year because releasing the code isn't enough to teach people how to program it, so we are creating little tutorials to help with that.
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