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open-gamma-ray-astro / gamma-astro-data-formats

Data formats for gamma-ray astronomy
https://gamma-astro-data-formats.readthedocs.io
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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License #149

Closed maxnoe closed 4 years ago

maxnoe commented 4 years ago

This project should have a license.

As it is not directly code, CC would probably most approrpiate.

As it is a standard, it should not be modified.

So I would propose CC by Attribution, No-Derivatives: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/

lmohrmann commented 4 years ago

This sounds like a good proposal to me. Thoughts by anyone else?

tibaldo commented 4 years ago

Do you need to verify that the format license does not conflict with the licenses of the any Science Tools using the format?

lmohrmann commented 4 years ago

Another thought: this is supposed to be a prototype for the CTA data format, although it will of course be for CTAO to decide which format they will use. Nevertheless, we should make sure that a license does not prevent CTAO from building upon this work. I'm not an expert on licenses, so I don't know if this could be a problem or not.

lmohrmann commented 4 years ago

Also, see the previous issue #114

maxnoe commented 4 years ago

Ok, sorry for not checking before opening this one. Seems they came to the same conclusion. BSD for code and CC BY for the license text. I'll open a PR.

For the no-derivatives part, this must probably be dropped, as a PR basically is a modified redistribution.