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Fulfilling the legal and other responsibilities
One of the services of the Foundry is to help its members keep track of the intellectual property issues for the code that is developed through the Foundry. This service includes instructions on how to handle the licenses to Director®, Quicktime®, and other COTS software. The Foundry also takes advantage of the ESIP Federation eCommerce site to help distribute Foundry software on CDs and DVDs.
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K-12 Teachers
The next generation of data tools is being built today in the NSDL. These tools will bring live data access and simple data viewers that can help your students achieve new levels of data literacy. Learn how you can get involved!
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College and University Teachers
The NSDL is working to bring research-level data tools to your classroom or lab. Your students can experiment with real data observations or run models without needing to know complicated software. Learn how you can get involved!
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Museum Director or Media Staff
Building interactive data-rich kiosks and give-away software for your museum has never been simpler. With the DDTF technology and your own Macromedia Director® applications. Or you can come to the foundry to find others to help.
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NSDL or ESIP Data Collection Project
Your collection of data resources holds a wealth of educational information. The DDTF is building the user tools that can tap your resources for classroom and other use. Come and see how the foundry can add value to your collection.
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Campus Media and Curricular Development
If you are developing resources for teachers to use to
bring data into their classroom, here you can explore how the DDTF can help
you to add real and real time data to your current Director®/Flash® development
efforts.
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Intellectual Property: the code is always free, but your content is still yours Through the use of the Lessor General Public License, all of the code resources on the Foundry are designed to be free for all who wish to use, improve, make money, give away software, and help build new resources. The key concept here, from the LGPL, is that any application that is built with this code must also make the code available for free to its users. The Lessor General Public License also allows the code to be used with and within other code that is not free, such as the code to IDL or Director. This also means that your lessons and the collection's data, and other resources that are added to the code are not covered by the license. Only the code itself (but including the graphics that are generated as a part of learning objects and tools are covered under the Foundry's LGPL. License free for the end users The end user side of the Foundry development path is designed to allow users to freely use and share the products developed within the Foundry. Other products that use Foundry code and resources with additional added content may decide to place license restrictions on the use of their applications (as long as they provide the Foundry code without cost). Still, there are pass-through license considerations with the use of Macromedia authoring tools and other media formats (such as quicktime) that need to be addressed during authoring. The Foundry keeps a full list of the license requirements and necessary forms and graphics. Selling CDs is also easy with the Foundry Store The Foundry is working with the ESIP Federation and the Foundation for Earth Science to integrate those products that require media delivery (perhaps they include several hundred megabytes of data). The Foundry eCommerce effort is a cost-recovery effort. Those members that are looking for a revenue stream from their product will need to distribute this through another outlet.
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