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this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2024
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Imo skip the open source license. You're wanting to give this specific organization access to your work. If you follow the suggestions here and license it under creative commons or some other open source license then you're also opening the door for others to use that work. It would be better to give the organization use of your work in its current form but otherwise reserve all rights for yourself, via a custom (non open source) license. This way in the future you can continue doing whatever you want with it, and maybe that means open sourcing when you're ready to do so.
Ofc if you're ready to open source now then go for it.
I second this @OP / @Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com, you’ll want to think carefully about if this is a situation where an open source/copyleft license is what you want to use. A couple concerns:
There are great reasons to use open source/copyleft licenses, but I don’t think they can or should be used in every situation. In this case they could be bad for both your and the festival’s interests. Ideally you’d be able to talk to a lawyer who specializes in contract and copyright law; the festival clearly has similar issues with other volunteer suppliers so perhaps they can find a lawyer willing to donate some time to provide them with a template that can be used for all their suppliers. Or if you’re doing a lot of freelance work yourself it’s probably worth finding your own attorney.
Otherwise I’d try searching online for “example content license,” “example image license,” “example development license,” or similar along with your state/province/country and try to come up with at least something basic to cover you and the festival.
Of course, if none of the concerns I raised are actually issues, Creative Commons has some great licenses.
This is all very helpful, thank you :)
I didn't know about that. I thought they might have to credit me, but didn't know that it would need to be on the work itself. I definitely don't want that. I hadn't thought about third parties either. I doubt that anyone would try to rip us off, but I don't want to leave that door open either, just in case.
I'm not overly concerned with future clients, as I'm medically retired and just doing this as a learning exercise. There's a tiny chance that I might get future work from this, but I'm more concerned with not cutting myself off from using the website / app template if I was to fall out with the festival at some point. As you say though, I don't want to leave either me or the festival open to having the content stolen either.
I've just realised that I need to double check how to handle third party images too. We have some local businesses who support the festival, so we use their logos as links on the site. If I include them in the repository, I don't want to accidentally give them away.
I've got some reading to do! :D
This is a good point, thank you :)
I was thinking along the lines of not restricting myself from using my own work in the future, but I hadn't thought about third parties being able to use it too. I'm not concerned about other people using the code behind the website, for example. I'm still learning, so it's probably more spaghetti than anything decent, but @jqubed@lemmy.world pointed out in their reply, I wouldn't be able to stop anyone from using graphics etc.
No problem! As far as graphics go, if you open source then you can specify in your repo's Readme what parts are under what license.
"All html, Javascript, css are licensed under XYZ"
"All graphics/images used with permission by ABC for exclusive use within this project"
It isn't particularly uncommon, and you could even list out specific graphics under what license, or structure them in the repository based on license /assets/licenseName if needed
That's a great idea, thanks :)