19. Invention, intellectual property and income¶
Space-Pad¶
SpacePad by Areg Khalatyan is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Licensing¶
I decided to share my final project under the Creative commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL-SHAREALIKE 4.0 INTERNATIONAL¶
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes .
ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Why this particular license?¶
I did some research into licensing to decide what license to release my work under and realized that I need to be very careful not to infringe on other people’s copyrights in my work. In a sense, I used the work of other people, to whom I am very grateful. Some I just took inspiration from, and from others works I used code snippets from. The last work done before me is the work of man.
All design related to hardware - visual, mechanical and electronic solutions - is all my work. When it comes to joystick design, I was inspired by TeachingTech. But still, I did all the design and modeling myself and did not use the source files.
And as for the code that I used, namely for emulating the Space Mouse, I chose the work of TeachingTech as a basis, but changed a lot, since he also used the work of other people and not everything he did was necessary for me. For example, I removed all the sections related to 3D Conextion Space Mouse emulation, this seemed a bit illegal to me and so I didn’t take advantage of it, I also deleted all the code using the mouse libraries, I need to use mouse and SpaceMouse to work at the same time. And since, according to my idea, I had to use a wierless connection, I used the library Blekeyboard. And since this person took advantage of CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, then I should use it too. This is because this license prohibits me from changing the license if I have used his work in any way, and I must also give credit to the author and detail what changes I made.
Dissemination plan¶
Distributing a specific product is a bit of a tricky issue as my code is licensed with a non-commercial license, I can only publish it on different platforms and I also want to publish it in my portfolio.
As for the further development of the product, in the future it is possible to refine the electronic part and make a more professional product, as well as change the code for new tasks, in which case I can already think about commerce, since it will no longer be subject to any licenses or prohibitions.
For example, I can offer this concept to 3D Connection.