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Why licensing is just the first step
Arfon Smith
January 06, 2015
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Why licensing is just the first step
My slides from the AAS 225 session 'Licensing Astrophysics Codes: What You Need to Know'
Arfon Smith
January 06, 2015
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Why licensing is just the first step Arfon Smith @arfon
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
!
GitHub
0 3,000,000 6,000,000 9,000,000 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
2013 2014 Users
4,000,000 8,000,000 12,000,000 16,000,000 20,000,000 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
2012 2013 2014 Repositories
GitHub delivered on a theoretical promise of open source
Open source collaborations Open Source vs Open Collaborations
Open source collaborations Open Source: the right to modify
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.
The pull request
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discuss improve Code first, permission later
Exposed process
Every time this happens the community learns
Merged pull requests
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Why are you releasing your project?
For contributions?
For prestige?
For compliance?
What kind of project will you create?
Thanks. arfon@github.com @arfon "