Category Archives: BSD

Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy

Posted on February 2, 2018 by astrocompute

This week,  I am posting a copy of white paper prepared by Shamir et al., in response to a call from the National Academies, who are sponsoring a Task Force on “Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy for … Continue reading →

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Get Credit For Your Code: The Growth and Impact of the Astrophysics Source Code Library (Annual Report 2014)

Posted on March 28, 2015 by astrocompute

The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) recently published its 2014 report, and you can find it on-line at http://ascl.net/wordpress/?page_id=1337, along with reports from the previous two years. The 2014 report highlights the growth and impact of the ASCL on the … Continue reading →

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Licensing Astrophysics Codes session at AAS 225

Posted on January 27, 2015 by astrocompute

On Tuesday, January 6, the ASCL, AAS Working Group on Astronomical Software (WGAS), and the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment sponsored a special session on software licenses, with support from the AAS. This subject was suggested as a topic of interest … Continue reading →

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Resources for Licensing Your Code

Posted on March 5, 2014 by astrocompute

Last week, I reviewed a very useful paper “A Quick Guide To Software Licensing for the Scientist Programmer.” To continue the licensing theme, I am reposting material from the Astronomy Source Code Library blog, which provides some useful resources for those wishing … Continue reading →

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A Quick Guide To Software Licensing for the Scientist Programmer.

Posted on February 25, 2014 by astrocompute

I have already written about software licensing a few weeks ago. This week, I want to write about about a paper by Morin, Urban and Sliz, who wrote a primer on software licensing, with the goal of helping scientists engage … Continue reading →

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Licensing Your Code: GPL, BSD and Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”

Posted on January 17, 2014 by astrocompute

I have for some time considered changing to a more permissive license (with Caltech’s approval) for the Montage image mosaic engine, as the the current license forbids modification and redistribution of the code. My first attempt at navigating the many … Continue reading →

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