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Invention, Intellectual Property & Income

What is Copyright in a public domain

Copyright as in intellectual property rights, is subject to a statutorily determined term. Once the term of a copyright has expired, the formerly copyrighted work enters the public domain and may be freely used or exploited by anyone. Public domain works should not be confused with works that are publicly available. Works posted in the internet are publicly available, but are NOT generally in the public domain. Copying such works may therefore violate the author's copyright.

 

Open Source Definition

  1. Free Redistribution The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

  2. Source Code The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost preferably, downloading via the Internet without charge. The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.

  3. Derived Works The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.

  4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form only if the license allows the distribution of "patch files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. The license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code. The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the original software.

  5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

  6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

  7. Distribution of License The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.

  8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a particular software distribution. If the program is extracted from that distribution and used or distributed within the terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the original software distribution.

  9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open-source software.

  10. License Must Be Technology-Neutral No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of interface.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition)

Licence

 I release everything on this web site under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. This Project was made for Fab Academy 2018 final project. Most of code is based on open source software and examples and i have no plan for commercialize the product. This project will remain open source.

Income

This project and other assignments I test and demonstrate is not intended to bring me any income whatsoever. It is an experimental work the work can be made available for recognition of wider audience through, GitHub,

Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project

My final project is to build a Vacuum Forming table. I have no plans to make this a commercial project. FabLab the ultimate place for learning and work This project will be used as one of the machines in our  workshop. Where it will serve students from school and universities, makers and indusial. All files are available for the public to download.

For maketing this product i will do a personal approutch for High schools and Uni. to show them how to build one and do R&D to make it more functional for them.

I will choose the Creative commons license. (  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
This work may be reproduced, modified, distributed and display for any purpose but must acknowledge (Vacuum Forming Machine) project. This work is provided as is; no warranty is provided, and users accept all liability.

Links

https://freedomdefined.org/Definition