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COTS definition (page 8 of Section 1):
"For the purposes of the FRC, generally available software modules obtained from open sources (e.g. professional publications, commonly used FRC community-accessible web resources, industry source code repositories, etc.) that are not specifically affiliated with individual FRC teams shall be considered COTS items."
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Originally Posted by blakeelias
Since the creator of RobotPy is a team mentor, does that make it "specifically affiliated" with his team?
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If you parse the definition, you'll notice it's talking about where you receive the software, not who created the software (obtained being the key word). If Peter emailed you the software and did not email it to anyone else, it would not be legal. If Peter hid it on his team's website where nobody else would find it, it would not be legal because the source would be affiliated with his team. Since he posted the code on FIRST Forge, which is a "commonly used FRC community-accessible web resources" it is legal.