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This repository contains code used to analyse the data presented in the 'Stuck in a rut' chapter of the 'State of paralysis' report.
https://www.thersa.org/reports/state-of-paralysis
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Add licence #9

Closed eirini-zormpa closed 10 months ago

eirini-zormpa commented 10 months ago

What licence would we like to use to release the code? My usual go-to is the Creative Commons Attribution licence which allows people to do whatever they want as long as they cite us.

Generally, Creative Commons aren't ideal for software, but I think the reasons for that aren't hugely applicable to scripts such as this. I think there's a semantics conversation to be had here 😅

But, there are also software-specific licences we could use (e.g. the MIT licence) which have basically the same restrictions.

What are your thoughts?

(I also just assumed that that's the level of restriction we'd go for, but I could be wrong!)

eirini-zormpa commented 10 months ago

apologies for the shenanigans with the assignees! I for some reason am only able to assign up to one person, which is weird!

CellyRanks commented 10 months ago

Generally as long as there is attribution I think either is fine. Any material diffs between CC BY and MIT? I found this https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/6392/

I'll email some relevant folks for advice

eirini-zormpa commented 10 months ago

updating to add info from DPO that CC-BY or CC-BY-SA should be okay!

CellyRanks commented 10 months ago

Final update is that we should be using CC BY-NC-SA

eirini-zormpa commented 10 months ago

@all-contributors please add @eirini-zormpa for doc

allcontributors[bot] commented 10 months ago

@eirini-zormpa

I've put up a pull request to add @eirini-zormpa! :tada: