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Open Source Licenses For Academic Work?

Posted by Soulskill on from the attribution-citation-and-extra-pepperoni dept.

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?"

2 of 173 comments (clear)

  1. Creative Commons Attribution by xous · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not one of 'em crazy academics but wouldn't this do?

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/

  2. NAMD License by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The NAMD license has a similar clause. It might be worth looking into.