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yochannah / wizard

early mockups for intermine data import wizard
https://yochannah.github.io/wizard/
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Make the license mandatory for public repositories #1

Closed justinccdev closed 4 years ago

justinccdev commented 6 years ago

I think we can/should make a license mandatory for public repositories. This will earn us big points with the data citation crowd and is the right thing to do. The downside is that this many annoy some people, but I think this is vastly outweighed by the upside.

yochannah commented 6 years ago

@justinccdev Hmm, I think I might agree. What about making it CC-BY by default, with the option to choose another if you prefer?

justinccdev commented 6 years ago

I see Creative Commons mentions CC-BY as a possible license. On the other hand, Wikidata is CC0, I believe because of the difficulties of maintaining chains of attribution over facts (which arguably aren't copyrightable).

For our purposes, I think CC-BY would be okay, though I think CC0 should be an option, if not other licenses too. Might be worth asking around.

madprime commented 6 years ago

:wave: following up from Twitter: I think Creative Commons encourages CC0 for data https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/open-data/

You might also be interested in these: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_use_for_data https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Data_and_CC_licenses

And these uses of CC0 which encourage (but do not legally require) attribution: https://dp.la/news/cc0-by/ https://unsplash.com/

yochannah commented 5 years ago

A great licence infographic here that we might be able to be inspired from to give advice on the choices (thanks @npscience for sharing)

http://asapbio.org/licensing-faq