Main aim of this week is to looking the possible ways of licencing my work. Before going i describe about the commonly available licience used.I take this week as a opportunity to learn more about license types available..First i go with intellectual property rights .
Intellectual property rights are the rights given to a persons or persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time.Intellectual property rights include patents, copyright, industrial design rights, trademarks, plant variety rights, trade dress, geographical indications, and in some jurisdictions trade secrets.
Patents: Patents are the right that given to inventor to product their invnetion from copying, making, selling.patents gives only protection to the product for years of 20 in india( form above all problems)
patenting gives an access to the court systems to litigate.Before going for patenting a idea or project , remind on thing is it easily replicable if it tis possible dont go with patenting. Refred from Wikipedia
Copyright:Copyright is a legal right that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights for its use and distribution of there work.copy rights are secured for creations, we dont need to file .Copyrights gives a commercial value to licensing your work. Putting a copyright on your work will determine how people can use it and how you can benefit from it. Refred from fab documentation of Rahul s Rajan
Familarizing with some of the common licences
Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organisation devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organisation has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. An easy-to-understand one-page explanation of rights, with associated visual symbols, explains the specifics of each Creative Commons license. Creative Commons licenses do not replace copyright but are based upon it. They replace individual negotiations for specific rights between copyright owner (licensor) and licensee, which are necessary under an "all rights reserved" copyright management, with a "some rights reserved" management employing standardised licenses for re-use cases where the copyright owner seeks no commercial compensation. The result is an agile, low-overhead and low-cost copyright-management regime, profiting both copyright owners and licensees.Referred the documentation of Wikipedia
six main licenses offered when you choose to publish your work with a Creative Commons license are :Creators choose a set of conditions they wish to apply to their work.are
Attribution (BY):All CC licenses require that others who use your work in any way must give you credit the way you request, but not in a way that suggests you endorse them or their use. If they want to use your work without giving you credit or for endorsement purposes, they must get your permission first.
ShareAlike (SA): You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and modify your work, as long as they distribute any modified work on the same terms. If they want to distribute modified works under other terms, they must get your permission first.
NonCommercial (NC) You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and (unless you have chosen NoDerivatives) modify and use your work for any purpose other than commercially unless they get your permission first.
NoDerivatives (ND) You let others copy, distribute, display and perform only original copies of your work. If they want to modify your work, they must get your permission first.
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While opening the codes of Neil for referring i see that # Neil Gershenfeld # CBA MIT 10/29/10 # # (c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010 # Permission granted for experimental and personal use; # license for commercial sale available from MIT # I am very much anxious to know what is this finally I asked about this to Yadhu he said that its MIT License, it first time I hear about this, so I try to learn more.
Copyright
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice, and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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My work is decided to licence under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.This licence allows anyone to copy, change and use my work without any restrictions.
I explained about my project idea in last week, All my works are from referring some others. I don't have the intention to make this project as a business one, After completing this I put all the codes and files on the website and give access to all. If anyone has interest in making this, they can go with that.
As of now I don't have any business plan, but I know this device can be very suitable to peoples who what to make there home very much user-friendly