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Content for the OSCA Book.
http://bioconductor.org/books/devel/OSCA/
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Question about licensing and derivatives #56

Closed jma1991 closed 3 years ago

jma1991 commented 3 years ago

I am building a Snakemake workflow to analyse scRNA-seq data and would like to make it available through the Snakemake workflows repository. However, because the workflow itself is based on the material in the OSCA book I am not sure whether this is allowed under the current license:

"NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material."

If this use-case is not covered by the license, is it recommended that I do not share the workflow and instead make the repository private?

LTLA commented 3 years ago

I'm pretty sure the current license is a mistake; such restrictions were not intentional. Probably someone got over-enthusiastic about choosing licenses and picked an unusually specific one. I mean, in principle, the non-commercial aspect means that I can't even use my own content, which would be ridiculous.

The next version will be using CC BY 4.0 - check out this (currently missing the 4.0, but I'll add that in later).

jma1991 commented 3 years ago

That's great news, thank you all very much.