I don't have time to argue about this especially because I agree that cc is likely better than OSS licenses, but I am just too passionate about this point not too. Workflows are 100% software!!!
A python script is just a protocol or a cookbook that tells a Python interpreter (runtime) how to behave. Even assembly is just a set of bits without a machine to run it on. You would never tell a biologist this, but Galaxy is a high-level graphical programming environment, histories are an interactive console for testing and debugging, workflows are finished programs that can be rerun using the same runtime on different inputs. -John On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Bjoern Gruening <bjoern.gruen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > http://www.myexperiment.org seems to favor Creative Commons licenses: > > 1500 by-sa > 342 by-nd > 318 by > 25 BSD > 13 GPL > 10 Apache > 9 LGPL > 6 by-nc-sa > 4 CC0 > 1 MIT > > For me a plain workflow in XML is not a software, its a protocol, like a > cookbook. Sure its written in a really high level computing language, > but the reason is mainly because computer need to read it. > > I would vote for CC. > > Cheers, > Bjoern > > > >> Hello all, >> >> A philosophical question - for my Galaxy tools and wrappers, >> I have been using open source software (OSS) licences, e.g. >> the MIT license, or GPL. >> >> For licensing my Galaxy workflows, should I also treat them as >> software and do the same, or as a protocol document and go >> for something like one of the Creative Commons licenses? >> e.g. CC BY, or CC BY-SA >> >> Thanks, >> >> Peter >> ___________________________________________________________ >> Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" >> in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this >> and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: >> http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ >> >> To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: >> http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/ > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" > in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this > and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: > http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ > > To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: > http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/ ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/
