Licensing

  1. An overview of software licensing from a research perspective

  2. An overview of the most common Open Source Licenses

  3. Licences for non-software e.g. this repository (coming soon)

Things to consider

  1. University Policy - (Must not limit unviserties use of software)

  2. Funders Policy

  3. Future Work

  4. Compatibility with software used e.g. using python

Repository Licenses

List of repositories and reason for license choice to assist future decisions

  1. cemac_generic: Creative Commons

  • CC is great for non software projects. Allows for creation od badge with link (see readme)

  • Asks for attribution if someone wants to use the work

  • Copyright notice remains intact

  • No limit commercial exploitation

  1. stormtrackingscripts: BSD 2 clause

  • Permissive with no limit commercial exploitation

  • Explicitly requires copyright notice to remain intact