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<h2>Copyleft or Viral Licenses</h2> | <h2>Copyleft or Viral Licenses</h2> | ||
<div style="float:left;width:160px"><center><img src="//2015.igem.org/wiki/images/a/a3/CamJIC-Practices-CopyLeft.png" style="width:150px;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:10px"><p style="font-size:80%;line-height:100%"><i>The Copyleft logo. The term was coined by Richard Stallman.</i></p></center></div> | <div style="float:left;width:160px"><center><img src="//2015.igem.org/wiki/images/a/a3/CamJIC-Practices-CopyLeft.png" style="width:150px;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:10px"><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 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. The principles of Copyleft were developed in the context of Open-Source Software (OSS). A well-established example of a Copyleft OSS licenses is the <a href="#GNU" class="blue">GNU GPL</a>, but this is not applicable to hardware projects as it software-specific. </p> |
<div style="float:right;width:220px;margin-left:10px;margin-bottom:5px"><center><img src="//2015.igem.org/wiki/images/2/22/CamJIC-Practices-CreativeCommons.png" style="width:220px;margin-bottom:5px"><p style="font-size:80%;line-height:100%"><i>An example of the human-readable version of the most recent Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA).</i></p></center></div> | <div style="float:right;width:220px;margin-left:10px;margin-bottom:5px"><center><img src="//2015.igem.org/wiki/images/2/22/CamJIC-Practices-CreativeCommons.png" style="width:220px;margin-bottom:5px"><p style="font-size:80%;line-height:100%"><i>An example of the human-readable version of the most recent Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA).</i></p></center></div> | ||
<p>Features of viral licenses:</p> | <p>Features of viral licenses:</p> | ||
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<li><p>Increased issues of license compatibility compared to Permissive licenses. This could be a problem if a new license is released later in time that may be more appropriate</p></li> | <li><p>Increased issues of license compatibility compared to Permissive licenses. This could be a problem if a new license is released later in time that may be more appropriate</p></li> | ||
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− | <p>One of the most widespread is the Creative Commons* Attribution-ShareAlike license. This is however not specifically designed for OSH, and was instead developed for works | + | <p>One of the most widespread Copyleft license is the Creative Commons* Attribution-ShareAlike license. This is however not specifically designed for OSH, and was instead developed for copyrighted works such as designs and schematics [1]. More comprehensive and hardware-specific licenses have been created, and here we will focus on two of them: the <a href="#CERN" class="blue">CERN OHL</a> and the <a href="#TAPR" class="blue">TAPR OHL</a>. </p> |
− | <p style="font-size:80%">* A global non-profit | + | <p style="font-size:80%">* A global non-profit organisation 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> |
<section style="background-color:white" id="CERN"> | <section style="background-color:white" id="CERN"> |
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