Last updated: August 20, 2026
The HexOS documentation is developed and maintained by Eshtek, Inc. with contributions from the HexOS community.
We want the HexOS documentation to be freely available for people to use, improve, translate, and share, while also allowing contributions to be reused under different licenses where appropriate. This allows HexOS documentation to benefit the wider HexOS community in as many ways as possible.
Except where otherwise noted, the content of the HexOS documentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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When redistributing HexOS documentation, we request attribution substantially similar to:
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Individual contributors do not need to be separately listed where attribution to the HexOS community and a link to the relevant documentation or its contribution history reasonably provides access to contributor attribution.
By submitting documentation, edits, images, diagrams, examples, or other copyrightable material ("Contributions") to the HexOS documentation project, you represent that:
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This additional license allows Eshtek to incorporate community Contributions into HexOS, documentation, support materials, educational materials, product interfaces, commercial offerings, and other HexOS-related products and services without requiring those uses to be distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Submitting a Contribution does not transfer ownership of your copyright to Eshtek.
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HexOS software, source code, APIs, libraries, applications, and other software components may be subject to separate licenses and terms.
Where source code or code examples are included within the documentation, the applicable software license or other notice accompanying that code controls if one is provided.
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Nothing in this license grants the right to represent modified or third-party documentation as official HexOS documentation.
Only documentation published or expressly approved by Eshtek, Inc. should be represented as official HexOS documentation.
If you redistribute a modified version of the HexOS documentation, you should clearly identify that it has been modified and should not imply that the modified documentation is maintained, approved, or endorsed by Eshtek, Inc.
The HexOS documentation is provided for informational purposes and is made available without warranties of any kind to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Eshtek, Inc. and individual contributors are not responsible for damages arising from the use of or reliance upon the documentation except to the extent liability cannot legally be excluded.
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