Dear Matthias, dear All, probably a question tangential to the subject of this thread but -- are SBML models data, or are they software? Personally I'm inclined to categorise them as the latter.
Best regards, Jan On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 06:05:51PM +0200, Matthias Nilsson wrote: > 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 -- +- Jan T. Kim -------------------------------------------------------+ | email: [email protected] | | WWW: http://www.jtkim.dreamhosters.com/ | *-----=< hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans >=-----* _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
