Closed dmlond closed 9 years ago
a great primer on licenses in Scientific Software, regardless of your stance on #3.
The one we recommend at NESCent to our scientific visitors is the following: Morin, A., Urban, J., and Sliz, P. “A Quick Guide to Software Licensing for the Scientist-Programmer” PLoS Computational Biology 8, no. 7 (2012): e1002598.
Another one is this: Halchenko, Yaroslav O., and Michael Hanke. 2015. “Four Aspects to Make Science Open ‘by Design’ and Not as an after-Thought.” GigaScience 4 (July): 31.
We should include a general introduction to the concepts and practices involved in releasing software to the world with Open Source Licenses. This would discuss some or all of the following: