The aim for this week’s assignment was to create and document a license for our final project and develop a plan for dissemination of it.
First of all I decided to know more about the different types of licenses that exist that would be necessary for my license. I read the documentation available on the web so I could choose the best license for my final project.
Creative Commons:. this type of license gives permission to the general public to share and use the creative work under all the terms and conditions of copyright of the project or just some of them. Creative Commons licenses do not replace copyright, but rely on these to allow modify the terms and conditions of the license of his work in the way that best fit to your needs.
GPL: there are some licenses non-transferrable and non exclusive that determine that you are not the proprietary of the program, you only have rights to use it in your computer and you cannot modify it nor distribute it. GPL (General Public License) license is completely different. You can install and use a program in your computer or as many as you want without limitation. You can also modify the program to suit what you want to do and you can distribute the original program or after modifying it.
LGPL: (Lesser General Public License) allows all the derivative of the program and all the programs based on the original one to be under copyright law. The difference between GPL and LGPL is that LGPL can be connected with another non-GPL program.
BSD: (Berkeley Software Distribution) It is a permissive free software license as OpenSSL license or MIT License. It has fewer restrictions compared to other GPL as being very close to the public domain. The BSD license unlike the GPL allows the use of source code not free software.
MIT: This license is a permissive free software license which means that imposes very few limitations on the reuse and therefore has excellent license compatibility. The MIT license allows software reuse within proprietary software. On the other hand, the MIT license is compatible with many copyleft licenses such as the General Public License and it can be integrated into GPL software, but not vice versa.
Apache: Like any other free software licenses, the Apache License allows the software user the freedom to use it for any purpose, distribute, modify, and distribute modified versions of the software.
After reading all the documentation about the different types of licenses I decided to use for my final project the Creative Commons license because I think is the best option. It is a perfect license I want to reach the largest number of developers and I do not care so much where or how can use my project. It does not guarantee freedom of the application.
These are the different licences that Creative commons offers you. I selected the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
NonCommercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
ShareAlike: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
No additional restrictions: You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Este obra está bajo una licencia de Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional.
PLAN FOR DISSEMINATION
My final project is a prototype of an architecture space for a showroom; is a project that I’m working at University. The goal for it is to be constructed someday. At the moment I have the idea and I’m working on how it would be constructed in real life with all the constructive details and all the structural calculations. It would be a good idea when all the investigation is finished and all the documentation is viable for constructing it to look for investors or other founding possibilities such as Government associations, crowd funding, cultural and artistic associations, international enterprises...etc that are interested on making the project come to reality. Also a business plan must be designed with a management team made of engineers and architects in order to sell the idea in a better way.