Open Source Licenses For Academic Work?

An anonymous reader writes "We're in the process of submitting a scientific paper describing some techniques for data analysis. We'll be releasing the associated code, so we're faced with choosing an appropriate license. My supervisor insists there should be a citation clause, requiring any published article that uses results of the software to cite our paper. Of course, ideally, free software shouldn't have such encumbrances, and I initially tried to talk him out of it. However, in academia, the issue of attribution and citation is very important. Also, it is not a restriction on use of the software per se, only on publication of results. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any such license. So I wondered: what do other academic Slashdotters do?"

Comments

We surf slashdot, not publish papers and code!

[h4x354x0r]

You'll give the rest of us a bad name if you actually produce anything. Stop that.

Re:Enforcing the license?

[Patrick May]

Oh, Congress!