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On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:39 PM Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.sche...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If some piece of software does not come with copyright notices, it does > *not* mean that it is in the public domain! (Just like: if you find a book > manuscript or a painting without a signature, its copyright still belongs > to its author.) By default, the usual copyright rules apply, and they are > very restrictive (basically one is not allowed to do anything with the code > or the software). Exactly. And in case there was any doubt: copyright applies to anonymous or pseudonymous works, there is no requirement that the actual names of the authors are revealed. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Anonymous_works . Regards, - Xavier Leroy > Copyright notices establish authorship, but they are also > crucial to *relax* those by-default restrictions by specifying a more > permissive license to use the software or its source code. > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 3:10 PM Alan Schmitt < > alan.schm...@polytechnique.org> > wrote: > > > [ The Types Forum, > http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list > > ] > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this question, but I don't > > know of a forum where I could reach as many researchers who might have > > the same problem. Please tell me if there is a better place. > > > > I want to submit a paper to a conference that uses light double-blind > > reviewing. A crucial part of the work described by the paper is a piece > > of software, and I feel that it would be difficult to assess the paper > > without being able to run the software, simply to check that it does > > what we claim (this is what a reviewer said in a previous attempt). So I > > want to anonymize the code and include it as an artefact. But that means > > I need to remove all the copyright info, which bothers me a little. > > Should I just not worry about it, or are there better ways to share > > artifacts anonymously? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Alan > > >
