Resources about Open Source Licenses

[ColinFay]

Here is a list of resources about licensing & open source.

Feel free to add one by commenting!

Books & chapters

• Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/understanding-open-source/0596005814/ (pdf here : https://people.debian.org/~dktrkranz/legal/Understanding%20Open%20Source%20and%20Free%20Software%20Licensing.pdf)

• Open Source Licensing Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law : https://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm

• Intellectual Property and Open Source : https://www.amazon.fr/Intellectual-Property-Open-Source-Lindberg/dp/0596517963

• The International Free and Open Source Software Law Book http://ifosslawbook.org/

• Managing 3rd-Party Software Licenses https://www.amazon.com/Managing-3rd-Party-Software-Licences-ebook/dp/B01JJC7LD8

• Open (Source) for Business: A Practical Guide to Open Source Software Licensing : https://www.amazon.com/Open-Source-Business-Practical-Licensing/dp/1544737645

• R Packages : http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/description.html#license

• Package Primer : http://kbroman.org/pkg_primer/pages/licenses.html

• Best practices for commercial use of open source software: Business models, Processes and Tools for Managing Open Source Software: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280554786_Best_practices_for_commercial_use_of_open_source_software_Business_models_Processes_and_Tools_for_Managing_Open_Source_Software

Articles & Blogpost

• "A Quick Guide to Software Licensing for the Scientist-Programmer" https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002598

• Open Source Licensing : http://www.iphandbook.org/handbook/ch02/p06/

Slides

• Licenses; human subjects data http://kbroman.org/Tools4RR/assets/lectures/15_licenses.pdf

• Licenses; human subjects data http://kbroman.org/Tools4RR/assets/lectures/15_licenses_withnotes.pdf

Others

• https://libraries.io/

• https://discuss.ropensci.org/t/best-practice-guidelines-for-copyright-and-licencing/1171

• https://discuss.ropensci.org/t/copyright-practices-for-analysis-code/1424/3

• https://opensource.org/licenses

• https://choosealicense.com/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses

• https://tldrlegal.com/

R-specific

• https://www.r-project.org/Licenses/

[MilesMcBain]

Spotted "A Quick Guide to Software Licensing for the Scientist-Programmer" in the Software Carpentry git course today:

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002598

[MilesMcBain]

This tool has a license compatibility checker: https://libraries.io

Seems like it has some of CRAN in its DB

[MilesMcBain]

rOpensci threads: https://discuss.ropensci.org/t/best-practice-guidelines-for-copyright-and-licencing/1171

https://discuss.ropensci.org/t/copyright-practices-for-analysis-code/1424/3

[ColinFay]

Cool list here :

https://opensource.org/licenses

[jwijffels]

Specific to building AI/ML models (in casu in the NLP domain).

• A Legal Perspective on Training Models for Natural Language Processing: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/L18-1202
• Artificial Intelligence’s Fair Use Crisis: https://lawandarts.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2017/12/41.1_Sobel-FINAL.pdf
• EU/US Copyright Law and Implications on ML Training Data: https://blog.valohai.com/copyright-laws-and-machine-learning
• Machine learning for lawyers: https://lwn.net/Articles/721540/