Reuse & licensing

Use these BESS diagrams — free, with credit

Every diagram on BESS.engineer — the block diagram, the single-line diagrams, and the 30 interactive visuals — is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). You can download, reproduce, and adapt them, including in commercial work, as long as you credit BESS.engineer with a link.

You may

  • Use the diagrams in articles, reports, decks, courses, and documentation.
  • Adapt, crop, recolour, or annotate them for your own explanation.
  • Use them commercially — in paid reports, training, or client work.
  • Embed the interactive visuals (each visual page has share/embed details).

You must

  • Credit BESS.engineer and link back to the source page.
  • Indicate if you changed the diagram.
  • Not imply BESS.engineer endorses you or your product.
  • Keep the licence intact — don't relicense or restrict onward reuse.

The one-line credit

Copy this under any diagram you reuse (link the name to the page you took it from):

Diagram by BESS.engineer (bess.engineer) — licensed under CC BY 4.0

Example: Diagram by BESS.engineer — licensed under CC BY 4.0. © Sergey Syrvachev / BESS.engineer — CC BY 4.0.