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Sharing Code: Creative Commons vs GPL
« on: Sep 10th, 2004, 4:47pm » |
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We're a small community of friendly individuals and I don't know of any problems yet of people using others' Processing source code and not sharing back.
However, as we grow, I think we should take issues of copyright seriously. There is a superb project called Creative Commons which allows people to share their work entirely legally with "some rights reserved". The website http://creativecommons.org explains this in clear language. However, software copyright laws are different from the copyright laws for images, music, writing, etc. The Creative Commons license does not apply to software created with Processing.
However, Creative Commons is also offering the Free Software Foundation's General Public License (GPL), which is the most prominent license for "free" software, where "free" means "freedom".
More information is here:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/
http://creativecommons.org/license/cc-gpl?lang=en
If you want to share your code with the world (and I hope you do) and you want to do it correctly, you should be using the GPL and creative commons really makes this easy. I hope to make this an option on exporting from Processing in the future.
Making your software "free" is totally unrelated to selling it to clients or collectors. Please don't confuse the two issues.
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