CSC 379 SUM2008:Week 2, Group 2: Difference between revisions

From Expertiza_Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Line 32: Line 32:
==Creative Commons License==
==Creative Commons License==


All Rights Reserved vs. Public Domain.  CC = "some rights reserved".  Start here: http://creativecommons.org/about/license/ Think about and discuss implications.
===Synopsis===
[http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] is a Tax-Exempt charitable organization dedicated to defining the range of possibilities between full copyright and public domain.  Their licenses offer a "some rights reserved" copyright.  The corporations goals are cooperative and community-minded in a voluntary method.
 
===Optional Conditions===
*[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Attribution (by)] - This license allows others to distribute, alter, build upon, even commercially, as long credit is given to the original creator.
*[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Attribution Share Alike (by-sa)] - This license contains the same terms as Attribution but also ads the terms to the new creation.
*[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd)] - This license allows for commercial and non-commercial redistribution, as long as the creation is unaltered and credit is given.
*[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc)] - This license allows others to distribute, alter, build upon the work as long as it is non-commercial and credit is given to the original creator.
*[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa)] - This license contains the same terms as Attribution Non-commercial but also ads the terms to the new creation.
*[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)] - This license allows for non-commercial redistribution as long as the creation is unaltered and credit is given to the original creator.
 
===License Expression===
There are three methods for the license to be expressed for the work.
*Common Deed - plain-language summary of the license with icons.
*Legal Code - fine print that will ensure the license will stand up in court.
*Digital Code - Machine-readable translation that helps search engines and other applications identify the work by its terms.


==Licensing in the Wild==
==Licensing in the Wild==

Revision as of 00:56, 19 July 2008

Alternative Intellectual Property Models

Creative Commons and the GNU General Public License are two alternative intellectual property models that are used in the software industry, and are now becoming more frequently used for non-software projects. Organizations and projects like Lulu, Wikibooks, and Flickr, utilize these alternative models and facilitate the creation of intellectual works. Examine the ethical considerations surrounding the practice of self-publishing and creation of collaborative works under alternative licenses.

Copyright vs. Copyleft

"'All' is excessive."

What is Copyleft?

All wrongs reserved.

Some History

TinyBASIC, Stallman, EFF, GNU, etc.

GPL (GNU General Public License)

Synopsis

The GNU or General Public License, now in its third version, is a licesne primarily used by GNU programmers and programmers developing free software packages. The license was written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GNU project is an operating system that in Unix-like in way it looks, but it is composed of all free software. The GPL it self is a great example of a copyleft license with requires derived works form the project to be available under the same copyleft license. The GPL grants the user of the software free software definition. The means that the user is free to copy the software, change the software, and redistribute the software.

The GPL in HTML

Related Licenses

  • GNU Lesser General Public License - is also a free software license that is a compromise between the original GPL and other permissive licenses. The main difference between GPL and LGPL programs is that LGPL programs can be linked to non GPL programs. Then the non GPL program can then be redistributed as long as it is not a derivative work. If it is it has to account for reverse engineering and debugging.
  • GNU Free Documentation License - is a copyleft license for free documentation. It gives the readers the ability to copy, redistribute,modify a work, and that all derivative works be available under the same license. Copies can actually be sold but if more than 100 copies are made the source code must be made available. The Free Documentation License is mostly used for manuals, textbooks and other reference materials, it is also the license that Wikipedia uses.
  • Affero General Public License - a free software license with a strong copyleft background, dealing with network server software. Very similar to the GPL, except that it makes the user have to have the source code available to any networked user of the AGPL'ed work.

Creative Commons License

Synopsis

Creative Commons is a Tax-Exempt charitable organization dedicated to defining the range of possibilities between full copyright and public domain. Their licenses offer a "some rights reserved" copyright. The corporations goals are cooperative and community-minded in a voluntary method.

Optional Conditions

License Expression

There are three methods for the license to be expressed for the work.

  • Common Deed - plain-language summary of the license with icons.
  • Legal Code - fine print that will ensure the license will stand up in court.
  • Digital Code - Machine-readable translation that helps search engines and other applications identify the work by its terms.

Licensing in the Wild

A Bestiary of Licenses

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

Self-publishing, Lulu, Flickr, etc.

Links and Sources

Retrieved from "https://wiki.expertiza.ncsu.edu/index.php?title=CSC_379_SUM2008:Week_2,_Group_2&oldid=14820"