licensing, citation and sustainability
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Intellectual Property
legal rights (IPRs) from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields
PatentProtects ‘new’ ideas and has an ‘inventive step’ that is not obvious to someone who works in the subject area
CopyrightProtection of a tangible manifestation of an idea; e.g. a book or source/object code
License An agreement or permission that grants a right to use .often in the form of a contract
• Governs exploitation rights• Fallacies• ‘found it on the internet so I can use it’• No license worse than a restrictive license
• If you are an employee you likely don’t own it• Often if you want to exploit the University will come to
some kind of agreement • Legal owners vs. Moral owners
• ‘Publish or Perish’• Impact vs. making money• Hard to optimise for both
Intellectual Property
• Governs the permission you are granting to others in regards to source code or object code you hold the Copyright on:– Are you allowed to use it?– Are you allowed to copy it?– Are you allowed to resell it?– Are you allowed to change it?– Are you allowed to distribute it?– Who is liable if something goes wrong?– What about Patents ?
Software and Data Licenses
Types of licenses
• Closed (“Proprietary”)• Restricted (“Academic” / “Non-
commercial”)• Open source license– Permissive– Copyleft
• Public domain / CC0• Informal license• No license
Considerations• Larger works comprising
code with different licenses (“license compatibility”)
• Assets made available under more than one license (“dual licensing”)
• Copyright holders can re-license as they own the IP
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1434044
Licence Properties
• attribution – the licensor must be given due credit for the work when it is
distributed, displayed, performed, or used to derive a new work.
• copyleft – any new works derived from the licensed one must be released
under the same license, and only that licence.
• non-commercial licence – to prevent the licensee from exploiting the work commercially.
• Multiple and dual licensing– alternative licence allows commercial uses but requires payment
to the licensor.
Apache License 2.0BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" licenseBSD 2-Clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" licenseGNU General Public License (GPL)GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)MIT licenseMozilla Public License 2.0Common Development and Distribution LicenseEclipse Public License
Open Source Licenses
http://choosealicense.com/licenses/http://opensource.org/licenses
Check conditions for distributionProprietary Software Licenses
Special terms and conditions for distribution
• Creative Commons• Open Data Commons• Open/Non-Commercial Government Licence• Public domain– most permissive way of releasing data– CC-0
Standard Data licences
Creative Commons Data Licensing
• (CC0) (total waiver)• Attribution (CC BY)• Attribution Share Alike (CC BY-SA)• Attribution No Derivatives (CC BY-ND)• Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC)• Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)• Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/license-research-data#x1-4000
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http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/
License Wizardhttp://ufal.github.io/lindat-license-selector/
Citation: Orcid and Citation Tracking
Citation & Credit tracking
https://impactstory.org/HollyBik
Getting Indexed
Getting Indexedhttp://dliservice.research-infrastructures.eu/#/
[Paolo Manghi]
Sustainable Resources
• Commercial support• Community support• Government support• National support
• Cloud support• Import and export• Research objects
http://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/d6/attachments/pages/trac_0.pdfTrustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist
Crediting the Resourceto help sustain it….
Geraint Duck, Goran Nenadic, Andy Brass, David L. Robertson, Robert Stevens: Extracting patterns of database and software usage from the bioinformatics literature. Bioinformatics 30(17): 601-608 (2014)
Senay Kafkas, Jee-Hyub Kim, Xingjun Pi, Johanna R. McEntyre:Database citation in supplementary data linked to Europe PubMed Central full text biomedical articles. J. Biomedical Semantics 6: 1 (2015)
ResourcesSoftware• http://www.software.ac.uk• OSSWatch – oss-watch.ac.uk – opensource advice• GNU – all things Copyleft – www.gnu.org• http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2015-08-27-price-open-source-software-joint-
response - contemporary issues in open sourcing research code• http://producingoss.com/ - about open development• Software Freedom Law Centre - https://www.softwarefreedom.org/ - legal defense
of Copyleft• http://www.qlegal.qmul.ac.uk/resources/index.html • https://www.gov.uk/guidance/lambert-toolkit - wider IP sharing with industry
Data• https://rd-alliance.org/groups/rdawds-publishing-data-services-wg.html• http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides• http://www.dcc.ac.uk• http://ufal.github.io/lindat-license-selector/