2DegreesInvesting / tiltWebTool

APP: https://mauro-2dii.shinyapps.io/tiltwebtool/
https://2degreesinvesting.github.io/tiltWebTool/
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Choose a license #86

Open maurolepore opened 6 days ago

maurolepore commented 6 days ago

@AnneSchoenauer and @Tilmon

It's currently unclear which license applies to the downloaded data.

Examples

ForestGEO (my previous employer) hosts a similar "tool" (website) to explore and request multiple datasets.

For example consider the datasets from "Barro Colorado Island". The "tool" (website) doesn't host the data. It simply provides an interface that links to

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Background

The software in the backend of the app uses the same license as every other tilt packckage: GPLv3. But the users of the app see a front end which says nothing about how we expect them to use the data.

The best licenses for software or data are typically different:

All these licenses [e.g. GPLv3] are designed specifically to apply to source code [e.g. the tiltIndicator package], so if you’re releasing a package that primarily contains data, you should use a different type of license. -- https://r-pkgs.org/license.html#licenses-for-data

A license that is frequently used in open source data is CCO but it seems too liberal for what you want. A better one might be CCO-BY-NC-ND:

From https://www.openaccess.nl/en/creative-commons-licenses

There are six different CC license types and they all provide attribution and free access to your publication. The available ‘building blocks’ for a license are:

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/