Invention, Intellectual Property and Business Models
My quality of this weeks' assignment is not very good as this I faced many problems this week
There is some good news and some bad news.
Good news being that, it rained heavily. This is beginning of monsoon.
Now the average temperature will start decreasing.
I recommend you to watch the video below to an idea.
Now coming to the bad news:
Every time it rains in Pabal, the government cuts power supply, for safety reasons. This has left us without stable power for a few days now.
My laptop does not have a good battery, hence I'm not able to work long without power.
And the exact day I reserved for making video and poster, we had a powercut.
So I was not able to work on it.
Assignment For this week:
1: Invention
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process. The invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process.
2: Intellectual Property
intangible property that is the result of creativity, such as patents, copyrights, etc.
3: Business Model
a plan for the successful operation of a business, identifying sources of revenue, the intended customer base, products, and details of financing.
Open Source Licenses:
Open source licenses grant permission to everyone to use, modify, and share licensed software for any purpose, subject to conditions preserving the provenance and openness of the software. The following licenses are arranged from one with the strongest of these conditions (GNU AGPLv3) to one with no conditions (Unlicense). Notice that the popular licenses featured on the home page (GNU GPLv3, Apache License 2.0, and MIT License) fall within this spectrum.
The most common licenses available are MIT license, Apache license, GNU GPLv3.
MIT license:
The MIT License is a permissive license that is short and to the point. It lets people do anything they want with your code as long as they provide attribution back to you and don’t hold you liable.
Apache License:
The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive license similar to the MIT License, but also provides an express grant of patent rights from contributors to users.
GNU GPLv3
The GNU GPLv3 is a copyleft license that requires anyone who distributes your code or a derivative work to make the source available under the same terms, and also provides an express grant of patent rights from contributors to users.
My real aim to find the best way to grow azolla. The fab project is just the one of the tools to find and optimize the process.
Instead of selling the setup to grow azolla, I want to be able to sell the standard process in simple words a formula to grow azolla.
Just like we do for other plants, but way more precise and based on scientific experiments rather than empirical knowledge
There are a number of ways I or other can my project:
Use my setup to study growth of other aquatic plants: Many people want to study other plants than azolla but they lack the research knowledge on how to setup an experiment, for them this can prove useful and demonstrate a "Design of experiment". For such people my project is open source, they can learn from my experience
To use cultivate azolla commercially, Azolla can be cultivated commercially with the help of my project. Either they can perform a few experiments themselves to get the solution or they can contact me.
To develop further and make it even better: People can take my project further, modify it even get a better yield of azolla. Now people can keep these development private if they want because it might be useful to them commercially
Apache is a permissive license whose main conditions require preservation of copyright and license notices. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.
To add Apache License to the project simply make a LICENSE file in the root of your project
And add the text give on the apache website
It is available here
