Free software, Open source software, licenses. A short presentation including a procedure for research software and data dissemination

As H2020 approaches and open access policies spread in the European research community ([9]), it becomes more important to revisit the basic concepts in software distribution such as free software, open source software, licenses: they should be considered before any research software dissemination. We also propose here a distribution procedure that can be adapted for software and data dissemination. The target public of this document is the research community at large. This document is at your disposal under the license CC-BY-SA v4.0, which means that it can be freely modified, but authors of modifications agree to keep the initial author information and state the changes made. Redistribution of this document or its modified version should be done under the same license terms. If you find this document useful, please make it available to a large public.