Week-19 :- Invention, Intellectual Property and Income

This assignment is to develop a plan for dissemination of our final project. We should also look at feasible licensing models to share our work.
As of now I'm planning to look into GPL, Creative Commons and MIT License.

GNU General Public License (GPL)

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL) is a widely used free software license, which guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share and modify the software. The license was originally written by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU Project, and grants the recipients of a computer program the rights of the Free Software Definition. The GPL is a copyleft license, which means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD licenses and the MIT License are widely used examples. GPL was the first copyleft license for general use ~ Wikipedia


Free Software means that the user has four essential freedoms:
  • Freedom zero is the freedom to run the program as you wish.
  • Freedom one is the freedom to study the source code and change it so that the program does what you wish when you run it.
  • Freedom two is the freedom to help your neighbour; that is, the freedom to distribute exact copies to others, when you wish.
  • Freedom three is the freedom to contribute to your community; that's the freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions, when you wish.

    • Creative Commons


    Creative Commons is commonly used for design projects. Different types of CC licenses are available, each granting certain rights.

  • Attribution
    • CC BY -> This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.
  • Attribution-ShareAlike
    • CC BY-SA ->This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.
  • Attribution-NoDerivs
    • CC BY-ND -> This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
  • Attribution-NonCommercial
    • CC BY-NC -> This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
  • Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
    • CC BY-NC-SA -> This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
  • Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
    • CC BY-NC-ND -> This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially. 
    The MIT License

  Copyright

  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 personsf 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.
    This is one of the smallest and robust of all, maybe because I've come across it a numerous times in Niel's codes.

    Dissemination Plan

    Licensing my work - For my Fab Academy works, I would be using CC-BY-NC, for all the documentation, design files and source codes. The CC-BY-SA, satisfies the terms which I look into ,i.e All my works should be openely available, free to remix and distribute as long as they give me credit and are using for non-commercial purposes.


    The following code was generated 
    <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br /><span xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" property="dct:title">Matrix display board</span> by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="file:///home/user/fablabkochi/students/157/project/index.html" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">Lancy Felix</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.
    Creative Commons License
    Matrix display board by Lancy Felix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
    Dissemination plan - As of now, I have no intention of turning my SIMPLE work into a buisness.

    CONCLUSION

    The week gave me an insight on various licensing platforms. It also gave me a vague idea about the marketing strategy for my final project, if at all I want to do buisness later on.