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Discussion on project licencing. #6

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Ramon and I had a quick chat about the licencing nature of the project. The 
project is currently licenced under the GPL with the main copyright holder 
stated as the University of Oxford.

I was thinking that perhaps a more substantial discussion would be useful on 
this topic, and it's something that should be addressed relatively early, 
before we commit to substantial amounts of code / contributions. Ramon 
encouraged me to post this as an 'issue' here.

Points to address would be:
* Is the current licence the best for the project
* Does it address the academic nature of the project (for instance, it does not 
force or encourage people to cite the project or the individual author or 
associated papers when using / modifying the code).
* What is the legal situation with the university being the main copyright 
holder? Should the project has its own autonomous copyright? Do individual 
authors / contributors have a say / rights over their work? Does submitting to 
the project 'lock' a contributor out of their rights to that code?
* What is the legal position with using third-party code? For example, if we're 
using a tool which has been modified from matlab's fileexchange, does this 
affect us as a project? (see: 
http://wiki.octave.org/FAQ#Why_can.27t_I_use_code_from_File_Exchange_in_Octave.3
F_It.27s_released_under_a_BSD_license.21 )

I would be keen to have a better idea about these issues before committing 
substantially to the project; particularly the points about citeability and 
code ownership.

Let me know your thoughts :)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tasos.pa...@gmail.com on 24 Oct 2014 at 2:20

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Original comment by rcas...@gmail.com on 29 Oct 2014 at 10:52

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
We just had a small discussion about this in 2nd Gerardus meeting. Will discuss 
further in 3 weeks time.

Original comment by rcas...@gmail.com on 29 Oct 2014 at 10:53

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