For this week's assignment we need to register our project in a license. I chose creative commons because it lets me to pick how it will be used and commercialize with ease and freedom. For this week, we needed to investigate two licenses and show why I prefer one or the other.

The first license type that I investigated was Creative Commons. They offer to register your work to acquire some rights despite the complexity of the patent law in every county. While you are doing your paper work you can still protect your self with this type of license. They also offer Public Domain registration, with this public domain you can out your work in the web to be used by whoever wants to use it but you still can put some parameters: This parameters includes comercialization and remixes; you can let other people modify your file and upload it and you can let other people make business with your file.

The public domain license is something I feel comfortable with talking about my project and how I want it to be popularized.

Then I investigated The Apache Software Foundation.

The ASF provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits potential legal exposure for our project committers. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 620 individual Members and 5,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo.

I chose the Creative Commons license because it was really easy to obtain, goes with my beiliefs of public domain, and it is really easy to modify in the future if I want to change something.

 

I chose the Creative Commons license, for registering my project I started in the home page, in the option that is depicted in the image above. Clicking in that orange flag will sendo you to a very easy to follow formulary.

Then you clicked over the option get started.

The image above shows two questions that when you answer them you practically obtain the license.

The first question is if you want to let others share adaptations of your work, I decided that it can be share in the same way I shared my original project.

The second question is if I want to permit commercial uses of my machine, to that I answered yes also.

The image above shows the type of license Creative Commons can offer me based in the characteristics I want my work protected.

The image above shows a questionary with some information required to grant the license. The questions are really simple, the name of the work, the name of the author and URL for the web pages of the project and the author.

The image above shows the questions answered with the information above required.

After filling the data the license was complete, I copied the embedded link given by the page and paste it in my own page below.

Dissemination

The idea of my DLP printer is to focus on dissemintate it in schools. Many schools here in Mexico has projectors, some of them are newer and modern projectors, some of them are old. My printer offers them a new way to use the projector, my machine is designed to be modular and to place, adjust and remove the projector with ease.

I would like also to offer two different types of workshops, the first one is focus on manufacturing the machine; I would like to modify my unions to change them from 3D printed to resin casted. The second workshop is focus on 3D modelling so they can model their own pieces and send them to print.

I would also like to create a good instructable. I design some aspects of the machine that especifically deserve to be share because they aim to make this kind of technology cheaper and more accesible to everyone.

I would also like to create some of this machines to gift them. My mother is the principal of a kinder garten in a very poor community in Veracruz, Mexico. I would like to gift one machine to her kindergarten, I will also gave the resins obviously because they are expensive also, but I would like the keys casting some toy pieces with the resins.