Hi Dirk,
Jake makes the same nuanced point you do. "This list progresses from widely
accepted to increasingly more contentious. I can’t claim my advice is sound for
every possible situation."
A gold nugget from the article you linked:
"I am not only pro-copyleft, I am also pro-permissive licensing. The difference
between these is tactics: the first tactic is towards guaranteeing user
freedom, the second tactic is toward pushing adoption."
Let's not turn this thread into a license flame war. All of these are good
resources and I think our learners will be well served if we point them to
each.
Juan.
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From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 10:45 pm
Subject: Re: [Discuss] How to motivate use of licenses in Open Science lesson?
To: Juan Nunez-Iglesias <[email protected]>
Cc: Software Carpentry Discussion <[email protected]>, Greg
Wilson <[email protected]>
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
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