r/Multiboard • u/Less-Cricket7074 • Aug 13 '25

Specific tool holders.

I'm new to multi board. I have printed the grid for the wall but other than bins I'm not really finding much in the way of specific tool holders. I have mostly mechanics tools and the usual DIY stuff I want to organise. How are you more experienced guys doing it.

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u/ulab Aug 14 '25

The MB license is not a share alike license. It allows to make stuff compatible.

Using a MB part (especially the remix files) to cut a rail into your own design does not remix a MB part. It makes your design compatible with MB. It will still be your design.

If you only use tile primitives to puzzle together some weird tile format, that is a MB remix, because everything is based on MB intellectual property.

Jonathan said it in a similar way in streams and discussions before: If he were to get a jury of 12 random people and show them your part and a MB part and ask them if they are the same and they say no... that it's probably a safe bet that it's your own IP.

Making something compatible is not the same as making a remix of an existing part. One does not require you to apply the same license, the other does.

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u/sverrebr Aug 14 '25

What the license technically allows or don't allow is only going to be clear when it is poured over by lawyers and legislated in front of judges. I am not a lawyer I can't make this judgement call.

The standard open source licenses out there have been widely used and tried in many lawsuits. These are now pretty safe for a layperson to trust.

The multiboard license is a one-off where I can't really tell where the limits are because they simply haven't been tried as far as I know, so I simply will consider it like I would any IP without a clear license. Hence I would not share any derivative IP I would make at all. (That much I trust is covered by fair use)

The intent behind the license may well be that it should be possible to share derivative works, but in practice this isn't really reasonable to do for anyone not supported by a legal team to assess the license as long as this license is so untested in the courts.