[EDITED 28 September 2014 to replace reference to a CC license with the GPL 3.0 license after Apitronics added the GPL3.0 license to their github repository]

Here's a repository for my edited Apitronics code. I added a lot of disclaimers in the AHX711 library -- don't use that except in an emergency (or as a reference, I suppose, I did point out what not to repeat, like defining pins in a driver)! It works, and my priority is to finish documentation for the hackaday prize competition rather than focusing on code that's a few steps beyond my comfort level (and which will break if I look at it funny, much less try to fix my bad coding practices).

In other news, open source licensing is hard! I've followed open source software and hardware for years, I've read licenses, and I'm fully on board with the goals of open source hardware and software! That's one of the big reasons I backed the Apitronics Kickstarter since their designs and software are all open source too!

That said, supporting a movement is different from trying to comply with copyright law myself, and I have a lot of uncertainty about the details.

The short version is that the Apitronics Bee software is licensed under GPL3.0, a license designed to preserve the following "freedoms" (from this quick guide to GPL 3.0)

Nobody should be restricted by the software they use. There are four freedoms that every user should have:

• the freedom to use the software for any purpose,
• the freedom to change the software to suit your needs,
• the freedom to share the software with your friends and neighbors, and
• the freedom to share the changes you make.