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Copyright and Licensing
Copyright © 2026 Erick Ahmed
This project consists of multiple works that are licensed independently. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, each component is governed by its own license.
Bachelor Thesis
The written bachelor thesis (including its original text, figures, diagrams, and other non-software content) is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
This license applies only to the thesis and other documentation explicitly released under CC BY-SA.
For example, if you write a research paper or thesis based on the content of this repository, you shall license your work with the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license. But if you fork the code of the repositories related to the original thesis, that code shall keep its original licensing (GPLv3 and/or AGPLv3 depending on which project(s) were forked).
Software
The software developed as part of this work is licensed separately.
- CANdigger and CANdigger-eda: GNU General Public License v3.0
- CANveyor: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Each software repository contains its own LICENSE file, which is the authoritative source for the licensing terms of that repository.
Relationship Between the Thesis and the Software
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- The CC BY-SA license governing the thesis does not apply to the software source code.
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- Code snippets reproduced within the thesis are included solely for explanation and documentation. The underlying software remains licensed under its respective software license.
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