Kevin, You may not have the ability to litigate but your college does to some degree. Earlham likely also has some IP rules that you probably want to be aware of. Probably a good place to start is with your ITPC committee who formulated your copyright policies a while back. You also want to be aware of any requirements of the grants funding the research.
Of course, don't do this without speaking to your advisor first. :) In any case, if there is an existing community then following existing community conventions is often the most neighborly thing to do...some researchers are "protective" and don't respond well to "encouragement". My recommendation is to pick an OSI license...either GPL or ECL v2.0 and call it a day. Of the two ECL is more geared toward the needs of a research university with a set of accompanying contributor license agreements. Release your data and papers under one of the OpenData or CC licenses...either permissive or share-alike. Folks amenable to sharing back will...but I've always been on the trusting side of the fence. If you don't believe there is any malicious withholding of code or data then simply providing a good example may be enough. Making it easier to share is better than any legal "incentive" or "coercion". Regards, Nigel _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss