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Originally Posted by maths222
FIRST explicitly asks us not to rehost their materials. If you want to do this for internal team use, that is fine, but you should not be rehosting their materials for the general community.
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If FIRST doesn't want us rehosting their materials, they should host a decrypted version of the file. This is just for quick use on kickoff—it will be taken down afterwards.
If CD mods decide that my post is inappropriate, then I'll remove it.
EDIT: from a legal perspective, I believe my hosting of the FRC Game Manual qualifies as Fair Use under the four factor test: 1) Use of the FRC Game Manual is intrinsically for non-profit, educational use, 2) the uploading of the files for inter-community use for a very small amount of time is a limited use of the work in the context of its use for the US FIRST competetion season and as the official 2016 game, and 3) my distribution of the manual has no effect on the value of the US FIRST 2016 Game, as the works are also distributed for free on their website.