Hi, I got a question at work today that I felt unable to answer, so I thought I'd pass the question on to more knowledgeable people.
At my institution we have a set of metabolic models, which are basically descriptions of reactions and metabolites and so on, stored in an SBML[0] file. Internally, we have started to move them to private Git repositories, but would now like to make them public. As far as we can tell, there are no requirements from the institution or the university on which type of license to choose, apart from that the data should be "open". So what I'd like to know is this: 1. What licenses are recommended for data? I've looked at Creative Commons and Open Data Commons, but I suspect that there may be more. 2. How do we actually license things? Is it enough to add a file called LICENSE to the repository and point to it in the README? 3. Is there anything else that we should consider when making the transition from private to public? Best regards, Matthias [0] A format based on XML. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
