As is this paper: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002598
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Juan Nunez-Iglesias <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm currently too swamped to contribute, but if someone is interested, > this blog post by Jake Vanderplas is a great resource for information about > scientific software licensing: > > > http://www.astrobetter.com/blog/2014/03/10/the-whys-and-hows-of-licensing-scientific-code/ > > Good luck! > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 6:04 PM Greg Wilson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> Thanks for this - you're right, we should have included licenses in the >> "Best Practices" paper, and we should talk about the "why" of licensing in >> the novice Git lesson. Would you (or anyone else) like to take a crack at >> doing that? >> >> Cheers, >> Greg >> >> >> On 2015-09-03 4:59 PM, David LeBauer wrote: >> >> >> >> Yesterday I downloaded some great software but couldn't find a >> license. Notably, the link from the original publication had since broken, >> but I could find a page with a .zip download of the source code via google. >> >> >> However, I did not find any license file, only a request for citation in >> the user manual. I emailed the author about conditions for reuse, and she >> replied "All we ask is that the original work is cited and the URL of >> distribution is specified in any product that comes out of its use." >> >> I wanted to suggest that they adopt some best practices to facilitate >> reuse - add a license file, port the code to github, and assign a doi - >> even offer to do it. >> >> But I also wanted to justify the value of adding a license. I thought it >> was in the the lesson on open science, but could not find [1] it there - >> the section on licenses begins "The first question is licensing. Broadly >> speaking, there are two kinds of open license ..." [2] I also don't see* >> any discussion of licenses in Wilson et al 2014 best practices for >> scientific computing [3]. >> >> I was pretty sure there are some principled motivations, such as a >> license makes it easy for users to know and respect the author's wishes. >> I'd add them to the lesson, but would appreciate if I missed the section or >> if anyone had any suggestions. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> David >> >> [1] by "find", I mean, can't find matches to my search string >> [2] https://software-carpentry.org/v5/novice/git/04-open.html. >> [3] >> http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745 >> >> >> -- >> David LeBauer, PhD >> Research Scientist, Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology >> Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications >> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign >> 1206 W. Gregory Drive >> Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A. >> office: 217-300-0266 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing >> [email protected]http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected] >> Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [email protected] @kcranstn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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