Re: [DIYbio] DIY Science Equipment contest

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That depends on "ownership"; if the contest merely requires that you
irrevocably grant a share-alike license to the design, you nevertheless
can do whatever you like with the design as long as "ownership" remains
yours.

If, however, you are required to grant "ownership" of the idea to them,
and they then license it CC-BY-SA-NC, then you'd need dispensation to
sell it, yes.

Noncommercial is a dumb, dumb clause, and it's only there to attract
people who don't "get" free cultural works, and think they can't make
money on them otherwise, to try it out and learn better. But I haven't
seen the Tekla stuff on this thread mention NC: I thought they were
using BY-SA?

On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 10:38:11 -0500
John Griessen <john@industromatic.com> wrote:

> On 09/04/2013 01:17 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:
> > Tekla labs consists primarily of a bunch of UC Berkeley grad
> > students, graduates and postdocs. They're local here, and I can
> > vouch for them. They're Good People. No nefarious plans to take
> > over the market in DIY hardware. :-D.
> >
> > http://www.teklalabs.org/faqs/
>
> But their non-commercial license would stop Sebastian Cocioba from
> selling his 25 dollar OD600 bacterial turbidity unit if it was
> exactly the same as the DIY from the instructable that gets created
> in the contest. I grant you, that's not a big deal since the contest
> is about using generic components to self build lab gear, not how to
> make low cost partly 3D printed lab gear. Every DIY machine will
> have some hand work differences. Calibration will come from some
> component in it. It seems they promote point to point hand wiring
> even, instead of printed circuit boards.
>
> All Sebastian would need to do is get some other enclosures and knobs
> and go around such a loose license on the docs to build lab gear.
> The main point of Tekla Labs license follows. They're not promoting
> OSHW:
>
> "1) you must appropriately credit Tekla Labs and the creator of the
> design, 2) it is for non-commercial uses and 3) if you alter or build
> on the design, you may only distribute under this same license or a
> similar license. Please see the creative commons webpage for the
> specific wording and for additional considerations and limitations of
> this license.
>
> All contributors must agree to distributing their work under this
> creative commons license. All users must also follow this license
> when building, modifying and redistributing any designs."
>