Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

This week was about licensing types and what license assign to my work, and how to disseminate my final project.

We have 3 major type of licensing, regarding the software or a project:

Closed source

Also known as proprietary software, it’s a license type in which you can use the software you bought, but you cannot use the code.
After accepting the EULA (End User License Agreement) which is, basically, a contract between the end-user and the developer(s), you can, in the limits of the above-mentioned contract, use the software.
You don’t have the right to view/modify/use/redistribute the source code(s).

Free software

This license type let you freely use the software, but you cannot modify and redistribute code.
Also this kind of software needs you to accept an EULA.

Open Source

This license type is the most open: you have the right to see, modify, use, redistribute and sublicense the code.
There are various licenses types, with different conditions.

To help me choose a license, I used the website www.choosealicense.com which has a nice table with the differences between all the licenses types:

Green dots means that you have permission to do what is indicated, blue dots that you have permission but there are conditions, while red dots are limitations.

I decided, so, to use the MIT License, which permits commercial use, distribution, modification, private use under the condition of mentioning the ownership of the original work and the copyright notice, in case of redistribution.

About the dissemination of my project, having decided to leave all open source, I’m gonna stop the developing of the project, being a prototype.
But everyone who would like to continue/modify/destroy my work, is welcome!