This week assignement was to develop a plan for dissemination of your final project and put a license on the documentation.
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Dominate the world! Just kidding. But Yeah, o think that is the main idea, at least that is the intention, some people say you need to aim for the highest peak every time, i don't belive in every time but in the case of this project i do. This project begin with the two ideas: To make something useful for a FabLab and to make something that used most of the assignements in the FabAcademy program.
In the beggining i thought that it was a ok project, but i has grown in my concept an now i think this a idea, if well executed, can really improve a FabLab and even the network. And i'dont mean the form or this project, but the ideia to organize/inventory the smallest to the biggest part of the FabLab in a eletronic system, in this project i focused in the smallest parts.
For disseminating the project, or the idea i still don't know what will be the BEST one, maybe as the FabAcademy teaches is good to try some, like (Github, GDrive, Mercurial, etc.) and mainly not impose anything. And the most important part geather a group of people (and for my surprise i have at leat two FabAcademy colleagues with the same idea- ?list them?) and discust between them really making this idea a discussion an not a imposition!
For the legal (an borring) concept it is a full and difficult (aka borring) subject to read and diggest, but i found out the most simple copyright license, is to just create your work, and it is automaticaly copyrighted, but for a more complete open source license it seems to be the Creative Commons, for two reasons: it is very easy and visual and it is a license that everybody knows. I would use a GPL license or BSD for my software, but i think i can do this latter if i need to, if this project really grows and becomes something that need that.
Of course i understand that this assignment says, assume "sucess" and plan a dissemination project, as i have said i will aim for the highest peak, and that for me means, to create something that is installed in every FabLab (and other places) around the world and becomes something so important as the basic machines kit of FabLabs. And in the end create the FabLab factory, where the machines and people are there to solve problems and not try to organize the place or teach how to use a machine (as important as this are it can be a thing we automatize to free the instructors and gurus to discust problems).
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA license
A robust and easy to understand License, at least is what they say. What i liked about it was is there is a lot of information, and has a really nice graphical way to display what license is it under.
All this website and the design files linked to it are under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International, excluding the ones not created by Kenzo Prada Abiko used just as reference.
The Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA 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.
Creative Commons Video
General Public License
What this means is that after researching about a couple of licenses, GPL3, BSD and even Creative Commons for code i have decided to use the original library license for that string of code. For two reasons: One i'm using so much libraries (TinyWire, Keypad, Arduino, Tone, ESP8266, etc.) and two, almost all my code is really simple and is a modification of the libraries exemples.
And for example for Arduino core libraries that means GNU General Public License V2 (that is available on the files section).