Open community, Penn State and Beyond. Free and Open means that we are an Open Community, [welcoming to all](https://github.com/haxtheweb/webcomponents/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md), Penn State and beyond. It means that we value the [5Rs of content reuse](https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221#:~:text=The%205Rs%20of%20Openness%20%E2%80%93%20Retain%20%E2%80%93%20the,itself%20%28e.g.%2C%20translate%20the%20content%20into%20another%20language%29) in an OER context and extend it to the open web more broadly for non-academic websites as well.

## Ways we are committed to Free and Open

- Open Documentation
- [Open APIs](https://github.com/haxtheweb/open-apis) and [public infrastructure](https://webcomponents.hax.cloud/) in HAX and the web in general

- Self-hosting, static hosting, SaaS, PaaS, and vendor community will all be on an equal playing field. User content is to remain portable,
- Offline capable, remixable, downloadable, clone-able, and [generally ubiquitous](https://oer.hax.psu.edu/bto108/sites/web-ubiquity/blank) to the greatest extent possible

- No lock-in to platform or editor. Maximal support for one-click migrations via public URL references
- Block made to work with HAX are opt-in and should work with or without the editor present ([Example](https://codepen.io/btopro/pen/rNEMZrZ))

- No censorship on usage
- Apache 2.0 license on HAX core and all HAX integrations where possible (open licenses to mirror community integrations as needed. Example: [Drupal is GPL](https://www.drupal.org/about/licensing))

- App supplier specification is open and code to generate "App Store" definitions is publicly available