[cc-community] Open Hardware Licence
Patrick Godeau
patrick.godeau at free.fr
Thu May 7 16:13:53 EDT 2009
Le 06/05/2009 23:54, Chris Watkins a écrit :
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 14:44, Patrick Godeau wrote:
>
> Hello Stuart,
>
> Maybe you will be interested in the IANG license. It applies to
> any type
> of intellectual creation, including hardware.
>
> http://iang.info/en/
>
>
> "Last, this license requires the democratic exercise of the freedoms
> it grants. It allows every person contributing to a creative or
> economic project based on the creation to participate in decisions
> concerning this project."
>
> So IIUC you can't actually do what you want with the work - you have
> to go with a decision made jointly with other contributors? Meaning
> it's not really a *free* license...
Free licenses, specifically copyleft licenses, come with restrictions.
For example, GPL restricts you from distributing a program without
giving your source code modifications. This obligation is necessary to
preserve the freedom of everyone to have access to the source code.
The IANG license restricts you from dictating other people's work. This
is to preserve the freedom of every contributor to have a say in her work.
This does not mean that every contributor must agree with all other
contributors on every little change. It only means that contributors who
share a work should also share the control of this work.
> unless there is a right to fork, in which case it's just a "kind of
> free" license with an pre-determined approach to project management.
Yes, IANG refers to a "project based on the creation" which is a
particular collective working on the creation, and thus it can be a fork.
>
> Does it offer any greater protection for designs of physical objects?
> I couldn't see anything about this, so I'm not sure what advantage it
> offers over a Creative Commons license or other open license.
It addresses all works belonging to what lawyers call "intellectual
property", including designs, software, artistic and literary works, etc.
IANG also addresses rights not covered by CC licenses, like the right to
access the accounting of commercial distributions.
Best regards,
--
Patrick
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