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petermr / openVirus

aggregation of scholarly publications and extracted knowledge on viruses and epidemics.

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Add a LICENSE file #14

Closed Daniel-Mietchen closed 4 years ago

Daniel-Mietchen commented 4 years ago

perhaps separately for

software
data
text
images and other media derived from the above

TS404 commented 4 years ago

Agree. What are people's thoughts on ideal licenses?

For data obviously CC0

My default for most text, research and outputs is usually CC BY 4, but I'm happy to go with others' preferences if they want more open than that. What are the most appropriate options for the software license?

Daniel-Mietchen commented 4 years ago

I think CC0/Public Domain for everything is the simplest and most reusable approach.

TS404 commented 4 years ago

I'm happy to support that if @petermr consents.

TS404 commented 4 years ago

I put in a pull request and merged to master after conversation yesterday with pmr. Contibutors are generally pro public domain code.