OpenAMRobot Community Health Repository

This repository contains the organization-wide governance, contribution, licensing, security, and community standards for the OpenAMRobot ecosystem.

These governance documents apply across the OpenAMRobot GitHub organization unless a repository explicitly defines additional project-specific requirements.

Purpose

The purpose of this repository is to:

• standardize governance across repositories,
• define contribution expectations,
• protect the OpenAMRobot identity,
• support long-term ecosystem sustainability,
• encourage open collaboration,
• provide legal and organizational clarity.

Core Principle

OpenAMRobot follows the principle:

Open technology, protected identity.

The ecosystem encourages open-source collaboration, education, research, and industrial experimentation while protecting the identity, governance, and sustainability of the organization.

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Core Governance Documents

Governance

• Governance
• Technical Steering
• Maintainers
• Roadmap

Contribution

• Contributing
• Developer Certificate of Origin
• Code of Conduct
• Contributors

Legal & IP

• IP Policy
• Trademark Policy

Security & Support

• Security Policy
• Support
• Release Policy

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Repository Governance Baseline

All repositories should contain at minimum:

• LICENSE
• README.md
• CONTRIBUTING.md
• CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• SECURITY.md
• SUPPORT.md
• GOVERNANCE.md

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Licensing Philosophy

The OpenAMRobot ecosystem uses different licenses depending on asset type.

Asset Type	Recommended License
Software	MIT
Documentation	CC BY-SA 4.0
Hardware CAD	CERN-OHL-S-2.0
Logos & Branding	Reserved
Educational Content	CC BY-SA 4.0

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Contribution Philosophy

OpenAMRobot encourages contributions from:

• developers,
• roboticists,
• researchers,
• students,
• makers,
• educators,
• industrial partners.

Contributors retain ownership of their contributions unless explicitly stated otherwise.

By contributing, contributors agree that their submissions may be distributed under the repository license.

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Safety Notice

OpenAMRobot projects may involve robotics, electronics, autonomous systems, and AI components.

All software and hardware is provided:

“AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

Users are responsible for validating:

• safety,
• regulatory compliance,
• operational suitability,
• industrial compatibility.

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Long-Term Vision

The organization aims to build:

• an open robotics ecosystem,
• educational infrastructure,
• research collaboration frameworks,
• industrially applicable robotics platforms,
• sustainable community-driven development.

The ecosystem is intended to support both open collaboration and future commercial sustainability.