Question: The forum "does not condone the illegal distribution of copyrighted material...." If I were to look closely at my forklift, and create my own electrical schematic drawing from scratch, is it legal for me to share that legally with members of this forum. It would be my own original product, and I'd be willing to attach an open source license to it. I wouldn't mind if others provided feedback for me to update the document, etc... I'd draw it up in CAD, probably Solidworks, provide pdf copies. I think its probably too big for scheme-it over at DigiKey (although that is an awesome tool!)

I can't imagine the logic of the schematic is the copyrighted material. The copyright is attached to the paper / digital copy of the published manual only, right? I don't want to break the forum's rules, I just want to understand them.

Forum admins please respond?