[Year 12 SofDev] Copyright / authorship / solutions / ??

[Steven Bird]

On 3/5/08, Adrian Janson <janson.adrian.a at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> It may well just need to be the case that when we post materials to the
> lists, we need to state (in the document as well as in the attached email),
> that the materials are free to use but may not be adapted or changed in any
> way without the permission of the author….  As I put the finishing touches
> on my 2008 SAC1 – I may well do this before I post it to the list?  I would
> be interested to know what others think of this?

I think your concern about use of your work can be covered by a simple
license, such
as one of the Creative Commons licenses.  You could include the
following text in a README or LICENSE file alongside your other
materials.

Copyright (c) 2008 Adrian Janson.   Distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Note that this particular license permits derivative works, and
insists that they be circulated under the same license (a viral way to
ensure that those who benefit from your work are also
community-minded).  Another option is to prevent any modifications
with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivativeWorks
license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

However, this is probably too restrictive, only allowing someone to
use your work in its entirety and with no modifications at all.

Steven Bird
http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~sb/