| This week | |
|---|---|
| Presentation Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income | http://academy.cba.mit.edu/classes/invention_IP_business/index.html |
| video of the review (applications and implications) | http://archive.fabacademy.org/archives/2018/lectures/fab-20180530.html |
| video of the lecture | http://archive.fabacademy.org/archives/2018/lectures/fab-20180530.html |
| Assignment | Used software | Files/Downloads/links |
|---|---|---|
| develop a plan for dissemination of your final project | Final Project |
Licensing of my projects
Creative Commons
As you may have already noticed, i have shared my fabacademy 2018 pages on a Creative Commons license: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
For a long read go to the legalcode of the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
As Waag Society employee for 18 years i followed the beginnings and grow of this license closely, because Waag was heavily involved in Creative Commons Nederland . Through our programmes and workshops, we involve the public in our core mission: make technology and society open, fair and inclusive. So it’s obvious to share my fabacademy experience with this CC license.
Free Software
First: what is Free Software?
from: What is free software?
“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer”. We sometimes call it “libre software,” borrowing the French or Spanish word for “free” as in freedom, to show we do not mean the software is gratis.
We campaign for these freedoms because everyone deserves them. With these freedoms, the users (both individually and collectively) control the program and what it does for them. When users don't control the program, we call it a “nonfree” or “proprietary” program. The nonfree program controls the users, and the developer controls the program; this makes the program an instrument of unjust power.
A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms: [1]
- The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
- The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
I am using Free/Open source software since my encounter with computers, back in the early ’90s. Actually i started using Linux/Slackware out of frustration with windows 3.0, that should be around 1993. It’s the time of BBSes. In 1993/1994 ‘public internet’ started in the netherlands by DDS and hacktic. In 1995 i was involved in the first dutch meetings that lead to the dutch linux user group.
Since then i’m using free and opensource software (and hardware if possible). I am pretty straight in that sense. I did this fabacademy (almost) completely with FOSS software. Only exceptions were softwares necessary to “connect” to machines as partworks/shopbot/LaserCut and to drive the sense 3d scanner.
I’m not that interested in what license is best. I’ve seen a lot of “religious” wars over which license is better than the other. For me it’s about fair, open and inclusive. About sharing, learning and inspire each other. So if i write or make something that has to be put on a license, it would be Free Software - gnu:
The four essential freedoms
A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms:
- The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
- The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
So plz read: GNU General Public License