The foxBMS project is an open source project to empower everybody to build beyond state of the art battery management systems (BMS) based on software and hardware that:
- does not compromise their outcomes with restricted licenses and
- does not create a vendor lock-in.
We therefore release foxBMS with permissive licenses:
- Hardware (layout, schematics) and documentation: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Software: BSD 3-Clause License
For details see the LICENSE file and the license documentation.
However foxBMS is not openly developed on GitHub (or any other platform). The main development on this project is done by members of the Fraunhofer IISB and organized in a non-public repository at the Fraunhofer IISB. This repository is the output of the release branch of this internal repository.
This workflow allows us to release these development outputs under these permissive licenses. We do not have a Contributors License Agreement (CLA) system or similar that would allow us to integrate input from GitHub Pull Requests, therefore GitHub Pull Requests are currently not accepted.
We would be very pleased if you intend to contribute to this project. Please contact us first at info@foxbms.org in order to discuss your contribution and how it can be applied to the project.