Assignment
Create and document a license for your final project. Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project.
Learning outcomes:- Recognise the range of licenses available.
- Formulate future opportunities.
- Summarised two kinds of licences and explained why you chose one.
- Dreamed of possibilities and described how to make them probabilities.
This week's assignment is about invention, intellectual property and income. Aim of this is to make a plan for dissemination of my final project, learn about different license and finalize which license suits for my product.
Invention
Fire & Aim
My FAB - E is a smart cleaning robot, It can be controlled by a remote control and mobile application software. We can attach vacuum cleaner and cleaning mope to the arm of the FAB-E robot. FAB - E will be helpful for aged houswife's and handicapped person as they require servents for cleaning their house.
Intellectual Property (IP)
It refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce. Intellectual property rights include patents, copyright, industrial design rights, trademarks, plant variety rights, trade address and in some jurisdictions trade secrets. The IP system aims to foster an environment in which creativity and innovation can flourish.
Learning Outcomes
Types of Licenses

Creative Commons is a type of organization that offers an alternative to full copyright. If you have a blog and place a Creative Commons statement on it, you are giving permission to others to use your material. There are seven different types of Creative Commons licenses and are explained below.
Public Domain
By placing this on a blog or image, you are giving full permission to anyone to use your material with no conditions. They may use it without permission, giving credit to you and for any reason they want.

Again, this license allows people to use your work and derivatives based on your work but only if they use it under an identical license that you used for your work. With this they can use it for commercial purposes.

This license is like the previous two in that the person cannot use your work for commerial purposes. However, they can only use your work under a license identical to the one that you used for your work.

This type of license allows the person to use your work, or any derivatives based on your work, only if they give you credit.

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only certain copies of your work if they give you credit. They cannot use derivatives or use it for commercial purposes.

Like the license above, this allows others to use your work as well as derivatives of your work. Again they have to give you credit and cannot use it for commercial purposes.

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit.
MIT License
The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It is a permissive free software license, meaning that it puts only very limited restriction on reuse and has therefore an excellent license compatibility. The MIT license permits reuse within proprietary software provided all copies of the licensed software include a copy of the MIT License terms and the copyright notice. The MIT license is also compatible with many copyleft licenses, such as the GPL; MIT licensed software can be integrated into GPL software, but not the other way around.
License terms
A common form of the MIT License (from the OSI's website, which is the same version as the "Expat License", and which is not identical to the license used in the X source code) is defined as:
Copyright (c) (year) (copyright holders)
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Choosing a License for My Work
I choose MIT license for my Project work.
"While the MIT as permissive license puts only very limited restrictions and requirements on reuse of code and software, it is not without restriction like public domain."
Copyright © 2016 vinod@startupmission.in
FAB - E may be reproduced, modified, distributed and displayed for any purpose, but must acknowledge its name and Fab Lab connections. Copyright can be changed with prior permission from the owner.
Dissemination of My Project
My final project could be divided in three parts - design, hardware and software. As all these aspects were developed using open source code and designs shared online, I followed the methods which are given my Fab Academy final project page and it can be accessed by any one from my page. All the manufacturing processes could actually be done locally by any site wishing to reproduce or reiterate my project. I am planing to make some more robot's for my office. If any body wants my Robo, I can provide it. Any one who is planning to make a new robo, don't hesitate to ask my help.
Summary Slide
