Everybody uses free software every day without thinking about it; Facebook, e-mail, MSN, Skype etc. It is only when we are told that we can not use something that we react to it.
Why is it that some things are labeled with copyright and other things are not? Why doesn't everyone just want to share everything and let people play around as they wish? Well would you like it if another person took all the credit for your hard work?
Today you can find a lot of free software on the Internet, but not everything. Music, pictures, movies, books and articles are marked with copyright. This means that the person who made has all the rights to the product and if they find out that someone has been fiddling with it or used it for something they don't approve of, they can sue you. The reason they use copyright is because they have been working long and hard on something that they are proud of and would like to get credit for, maybe even paid. Like artists; you can buy their music cheap on iTunes, but most people choose the illegal way of downloading it for free (like we talked about last week).
It is understandable that people want to protect their work and not just let anyone use it for what ever they want, but what about the people who would like to use it for something great that could promote the product in a good way? People who would like to make something great of their one by using others work as well. Shouldn't they be allowed to?
"Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do these things and that manufacturers of consumer-facing hardware allow user modifications to their hardware. Free software is generally available without charge, but can have a fee, such as in the form of charging for CDs or other distribution medium among other ways." (link 1)
Some may use the argument that you can share clothes and food recipes, so why not software? Well if you think about it; if you give someone a cake recipe on a cake you have worked hard on, do you think someone could make the exact same cake? No, because all caked are different. Different products have been used, it has been made in different places and with different tools. But if you are to copy a song for example, then you're not making the song over again, you are taking the exact product someone else have made and making it your own. And that is what is not OK for most people.
"Creative Commons develops. supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation." (link 5)
Reference list:
Found Friday 30 Sept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
Found Thursday 29 Sept.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
I couldn't find the name of the writer.
Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Found Thursday 29 Sept.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1vPTPR/www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/foreign-signs.html
I couldn't find the name of the writer.
Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Why is it that some things are labeled with copyright and other things are not? Why doesn't everyone just want to share everything and let people play around as they wish? Well would you like it if another person took all the credit for your hard work?
Today you can find a lot of free software on the Internet, but not everything. Music, pictures, movies, books and articles are marked with copyright. This means that the person who made has all the rights to the product and if they find out that someone has been fiddling with it or used it for something they don't approve of, they can sue you. The reason they use copyright is because they have been working long and hard on something that they are proud of and would like to get credit for, maybe even paid. Like artists; you can buy their music cheap on iTunes, but most people choose the illegal way of downloading it for free (like we talked about last week). It is understandable that people want to protect their work and not just let anyone use it for what ever they want, but what about the people who would like to use it for something great that could promote the product in a good way? People who would like to make something great of their one by using others work as well. Shouldn't they be allowed to?
"Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do these things and that manufacturers of consumer-facing hardware allow user modifications to their hardware. Free software is generally available without charge, but can have a fee, such as in the form of charging for CDs or other distribution medium among other ways." (link 1)
Some may use the argument that you can share clothes and food recipes, so why not software? Well if you think about it; if you give someone a cake recipe on a cake you have worked hard on, do you think someone could make the exact same cake? No, because all caked are different. Different products have been used, it has been made in different places and with different tools. But if you are to copy a song for example, then you're not making the song over again, you are taking the exact product someone else have made and making it your own. And that is what is not OK for most people.
(link 2) Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it means that the program's users have the four essential freedoms:
- The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
- The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
Projects like GNU and Creative Commons are trying to give you a chance to find products that doesn't have copyright and wants people to have the chance to create and share openly. But they agree that people should get credit for their work, so they mark the product with other conditions. Such as ways they can use it, that you have to document the name of the person you are taking things from and maybe where you found it. As long as you follow a few rules like that, you are welcome to play around with it.
"Creative Commons develops. supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation." (link 5)Reference list:
Found Friday 30 Sept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
Found Thursday 29 Sept.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
I couldn't find the name of the writer.
Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This page is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Updated: $Date: 2011/09/20 08:15:37
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1vPTPR/www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/foreign-signs.html
I couldn't find the name of the writer.
Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This page is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Updated: $Date: 2011/09/23 15:31:03
Found Thursday 29 Sept.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1vPTPR/www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/foreign-signs.html
Copyright © 1994, 2009 Richard Stallman
This page is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
This page is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Updated: $Date: 2011/09/20 08:15:47
Found Thursday 29 Sept.
http://creativecommons.org/about
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