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Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
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http://contributoragreements.org/, https://developercertificate.org/ and http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/06/09/do-not-need-cla.html
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Your institution’s Technology Transfer Office (or equivalent)
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An Intellectual Property Lawyer (knowledgeable in software)
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Talk to colleagues and learn from their experiences
Resources recommended by others
- Neil Chue Hong (Software Sustainability Institute) in his tutorial An Introduction to Software Licensing recommends…
- The Whys and Hows of Licensing Scientific Code
- A Quick Guide to Software Licensing for the Scientist-Programmer
- The Legal Side to Open Source
- The International Free and Open Source Lawbook
- qLegal: advice for tech start-ups + entrepreneurs
- tl;dr legal: Software Licenses in Plain English
- Open Source Software Watch
- Todd Gamblin (LLNL) recommends…
- License compatibility resources
- (Re-) Licensing considerations of various organizations
- LLVM Contemplates Relicensing, LLVM Relicensing Effort
- HEP Software Foundation licensing working group, particularly:
- EasyBuild: GPLv2 licensing is a big issue, consider relicensing to BSD
- GEANT Intellectual Property Rights Policy
- Patents in software licenses
Related tutorial materials
- An Introduction to Software Licensing by David E. Bernholdt, from the Software Productivity and Sustainability track at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, 2022
- An Introduction to Software Licensing by Neil Chue Hong