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<h2>Copyleft or Viral Licenses</h2> | <h2>Copyleft or Viral Licenses</h2> | ||
+ | <div style="float:right;width:300px"><center><img src="//2015.igem.org/wiki/images/a/a3/CamJIC-Practices-CopyLeft.png" style="width:300px;margin-bottom:5px"><p style="font-size:80%;line-height:100%"><i>The Copyleft logo. The term was coined by Richard Stallman.</i></p></center></div> | ||
+ | <p>The Creative Commons ‘No Rights Reserved license’ (known as the CC0 license) essentially waives all copyrights you have over you work. This means there is no legal protection against you works being used, modified, redistributed or made proprietary.</p> | ||
<p>The phenomenon of OSH is in its infancy, and as a result there are only a handful of potential options when choosing an appropriate license. Many of these are Copyleft or ‘viral’ licenses.</p> | <p>The phenomenon of OSH is in its infancy, and as a result there are only a handful of potential options when choosing an appropriate license. Many of these are Copyleft or ‘viral’ licenses.</p> | ||
<p>Features of viral licenses:</p> | <p>Features of viral licenses:</p> | ||
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<p>One of the most widespread is the Creative Commons* Attribution-ShareAlike license (Fig. 3, Fig. 4). This is however not specifically designed for OSH, and was instead developed for works of art such as music and designs, as well as software [1]. More comprehensive and hardware-specific licenses have been created, and here the authors will focus on two of them: the CERN OHL and the TAPR OHL.</p> | <p>One of the most widespread is the Creative Commons* Attribution-ShareAlike license (Fig. 3, Fig. 4). This is however not specifically designed for OSH, and was instead developed for works of art such as music and designs, as well as software [1]. More comprehensive and hardware-specific licenses have been created, and here the authors will focus on two of them: the CERN OHL and the TAPR OHL.</p> | ||
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<p style="font-size:80%">* A global non-profit organization that enables sharing and reuse of creativity and knowledge through the provision of free legal tools (<a href="wiki.creativecommons.org" class="blue">Creative Commons webpage</a>).<br>[1] Opensource.com, (2015). What is open hardware? | Opensource.com. <a href="http://opensource.com/resources/what-open-hardware" class="blue">[online]</a>[Accessed 23 Aug. 2015].</p></div></div></section> | <p style="font-size:80%">* A global non-profit organization that enables sharing and reuse of creativity and knowledge through the provision of free legal tools (<a href="wiki.creativecommons.org" class="blue">Creative Commons webpage</a>).<br>[1] Opensource.com, (2015). What is open hardware? | Opensource.com. <a href="http://opensource.com/resources/what-open-hardware" class="blue">[online]</a>[Accessed 23 Aug. 2015].</p></div></div></section> |
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