pic: Floating Zip Tie Chain Tensioner

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by roboticWanderor

Or you could creative commons license it, preventing someone from stealing your idea for profit, but allowing anyone to copy it for their own use. I am even thinking of how this could be used in my own designs. thanks!

That's not how CCL works. It's a form of copyright protection only.

When you copyright something, you're asserting ownership of the work (of art, of literature, etc.), but you don't have protection for the engineering information contained inside. So by copyrighting a drawing, you prevent someone from redistributing facsimilies of the drawing, but are not protected against someone reading it and implementing the object depicted. The CCL just changes the terms of the copyright licence to permit not-for-profit use, usually with attribution.