Users of arc42 inquired:

I documented my system using the arc42-template. Does the arc42 license model somehow influence the license of this template instance?

Do we need to open-source our documentation?

• You have absolutely NO obligation to publish or open-source your documentation (that means: you can, of course, keep your documents private and/or closed-source)
• Your documentation can be put under any license or statutes you require.
• If you need your document to be secret or confidential, that’s fine for us.

We’d be happy if you could include a link (https://arc42.org or https://arc42.de) in your documentation…. to help “spread-the-word”, though.

=== See also…

See also question A-2 (arc42 license)