Open Science: Open Source Licences in Scientific Research

Renegotioating Open-Access-Licences for Scientific Films

MAY 2016 BEGINNING OF 2013 11.500 valuable scientific films taken over from IWF Knowledge and Media with a heterogeneous rights situation (date of creation 1920 – ca. 2006) TIB develops AV Portal for presentation of scientific films adapted to the media type in collaboration with partners Authors of films must be contacted for transition of rights Make available as many films online as possible...

Legal Challenges to Open Source Licences Andrés Guadamuz

This paper will concentrate on presenting a legal analysis of two of the main challenges to open source software: SCO’s litigation and software patents. The paper discusses the validity of such challenges, their possible impact to the future of open source software, and the possible legal defences used against them. DOI: 10.2966/scrip.020205.256 © Andres Guadamuz 2005. This work is licensed und...

Open Source Science

Developing open source scientific practice∗

3 Routine practice 8 3.1 Version control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.2 Execution automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.3 Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.4 Readability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Open Source Research in Sustainability

Most academics, who as researchers and teachers dedicate their lives to information sharing, would likely agree with much of the hacker ethic, which is a belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good and there is an ethical duty to share expertise by writing free and open-source code and facilitating access to information wherever possible. However, despite a well-established gift...