On 3 September 2015 at 18:30, Juan Nunez-Iglesias 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/
I strongly agrew with points 1 and 2 of the summary, but I object to point 3: Always use a permissive, BSD-style license. A permissive license such as new BSD or MIT is preferable to a copyleft license such as GPL or LGPL. I prefer GPL (as do a lot of other people, here or otherwise) and respect the choice other people make. But I dislike the overtones implying a superiority of BSD/MIT. There is choice here, and reasonable people may come to different conclusions. Here is another more recent post that makes this point more eloquently than I could now http://dustycloud.org/blog/why-i-am-pro-gpl/ Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
