It is important for licensing information to be on the publicly searchable and accessible metadata record.
Domain-agnostic comments
This can be defined in different ways, e.g. the “Rights” field in the DOI metadata.
CESSDA comments
CESSDA guidance on licence information is part of the guidelines on Standard Git Repository Contents.
Context
R1.1: Software is given a clear and accessible licence.
Possible Implementation
domain-agnostic
requirements
software identifier
method
Check if the software identifier or the metadata record referenced by it includes licensing information.
essential
The identifier or metadata record includes licensing and copyright information.
✅
important
n/a
useful
The software licensing information is in SPDX format, or other machine-readable form.
✅
CESSDA
requirements
software identifier
method
Check for the presence of licence information in the Zenodo repository and source code deposited in the repository.
essential
Licensing information is included in the Zenodo record and in a LICENSE.txt file included in the root directory of the source code deposited in Zenodo.
karacolada
commented
1 month ago
D5.2 p21+p31
Detailed Description
It is important for licensing information to be on the publicly searchable and accessible metadata record.
Domain-agnostic comments
This can be defined in different ways, e.g. the “Rights” field in the DOI metadata.
CESSDA comments
CESSDA guidance on licence information is part of the guidelines on Standard Git Repository Contents.
Context
R1.1: Software is given a clear and accessible licence.
Possible Implementation
domain-agnostic
CESSDA