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All NeXt group projects are or will be published under a free license. We use the following licenses in our projects.
The Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License is used for media e.g. like documentations, specifications, images or schematics.
For all open source software projects, a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) determines which additional copyright license granted to the project by the developer. This includes a disclaimer and, because of the international nature of open source projects, a clause that determines which courts should apply what right to the agreement. A patent clause, in which a developer, for example, allows the use of his patents, can be found in the CLAs. Our CLAs are based on Harmony (HA-CLA-I) Version 1.0.
NeXt group also provide open documentation of elevator or escalator devices developed and produced by members unter a free licence. An open hardware documentation can help to:
Some of this documentation is available for members only.
The connection of technical equipment to the cloud for the optimization of service and maintenance is a general trend. Elevators and escalators need regular maintenance, and cloud based lift monitoring offers many benefits.
Within the NeXt group, a working group has been set up with the goal of developing a manufacturer-independent standard for the networking of elevators and components.
The developed specifications are then released under a free license, allowing each manufacturer to integrate compatible interfaces into its products.
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NeXt technical groups are hierarchical structured. The top-level NeXt technical group is the NeXt Technical Committee (TC); sub-layered are the NeXt Special Interest Groups (SIG) and Joint Task Forces (JTF). JFTs are established jointly with other nonprofit associations. All these NeXt technical groups develop open source reference designs, software, specifications and recommendations. Each NeXt group member may participate in any group. The groups decide on consensus, meaning they discuss until everybody agrees on the compromise.
NeXt group® is now a registered trademark of the Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (German Patent and Trademark Office). The logos are also registered as a figurative mark and are now marked with the ®.
Following a consistent coding standard helps improve the quality of the overall software system. The key to a good coding standard is consistency. This consistency needs to be found within the standard itself (in other words, you need to make sure that guidelines don’t contradict one another) but also within the source code that uses the standard. Completed source code should reflect a harmonized style, as if a single developer wrote the code in one session.
At NeXt group we started to define the Coding Guidelines for the first software projects.