Creative Commons Canada Professor Marcus Bornfreund Manager: Law & Technology Program, Faculty of Law
Can you search for what's not lost? You will search, babe At any cost. But how long, babe, Can you search for what's not lost? - Bob Dylan, I’ll Keep It with Mine
Intellectual property law a set of rules that aims to balance the rights of a creator against the public interest
protects the manner in which an idea is expressed Copyright protects the manner in which an idea is expressed
Some Rights Reserved
Free/Libre Open Source Software
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
The Open Source Definition 1. Royalty-free redistribution (including source code); and 2. Modification and derivative works allowed
GNU General Public License (GPL)
Kirtas APT12000
Choosing Your Licence 1. Do you want to restrict commercial uses of your work, ie. Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works based upon it only for non-commercial purposes? 2. Do you want to allow modifications of your work? a. Yes, ie. Permit others to create derivate works. b. Yes, as long as others share alike, ie. Permit others to distribute derivative works only under a licence identical to the licence that governs your work. c. No, ie. Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based upon it.
Free your code, the rest will follow.
Marcus Bornfreund marcus@uottawa.ca http://creativecommons.ca Please visit the Creative Commons Canada website: http://creativecommons.ca