Week
Seventeen

Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

As you can see above in my poster I chose the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. Why did I do that you might ask? I did it because I do not care. Personally I do not plan on making a cent on this project nor any of the parts of it. However if at some point in the future someone comes along and can somehow pull a million dollar idea out of it I couldn't care less. Good for them! That is the jist of it the only limitation I put on it is that if anyone does find anything they still need to make it sharable just because otherwise that seems a little gross. The idea of someone coming along and taking a public idea just to drag it into the private is sad so I wanted to prevent it with my project.

Why Creative Commons?

It's free, it's easy to use, and again I do not care. All of this licensing only really matters if I feel litigious which I genereally don't, so even if I did care enough to get some other type of license to limit dispersal of my stuff then someone could still just do it unless I felt like lawyering up, so this just felt like the best option.

I did look at other options. Public domain sounds really nice, my only thought about it is that my stuff could still theoretically be copyrighted. Someone would need to get a collection of Fab Academy public domain projects, and then copyright market and sell their collection, and then boom someone did the whole pulling a public idea private which I thought was a little upseting. All of the other ideas that I looked at were going to cost me either some amount of money or some amount of time neither of which I was willing to part with more than I already had.