Why licensing is just the first step

My slides from the AAS 225 session 'Licensing Astrophysics Codes: What You Need to Know'

Transcript

1. Why licensing is just the first step Arfon Smith @arfon Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
2. !
3. GitHub
4. 0 3,000,000 6,000,000 9,000,000 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Users
5. 4,000,000 8,000,000 12,000,000 16,000,000 20,000,000 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Repositories
6. GitHub delivered on a theoretical promise of open source
7. Open source collaborations Open Source vs Open Collaborations
8. Open source collaborations Open Source: the right to modify
9. Open source collaborations Open Collaborations: a highly collaborative development process and are receptive to contributions of code, documentation, discussion, etc from anyone who shows competent interest.
10. The pull request
18. discuss improve Code first, permission later
19. Exposed process
20. Every time this happens the community learns
21. Merged pull requests
25. Why are you releasing your project?
26. For contributions?
27. For prestige?
28. For compliance?
29. What kind of project will you create?
30. Thanks. arfon@github.com @arfon "