{"id":17,"date":"2015-09-11T18:42:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T18:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/openscience\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2015-09-11T18:42:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T18:42:22","slug":"open-science-licenses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/openscience\/about\/open-science-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Open science licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formally licensing your research products with a recognized license (for example, through a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creative Commons license<\/a> or an <a href=\"http:\/\/opendatacommons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Data Commons license)<\/a>\u00a0 provides a consistent and easily understandable way of communicating how other people can interact with those products.\u00a0 Guidelines like the <a href=\"http:\/\/pantonprinciples.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Panton Principles <\/a>for data sharing give recommendations for licenses that are appropriate for practicing open science.<\/p>\n<p>A good guideline is to use a license that places the fewest restrictions on use of your work as possible (for example, CC-BY, a Creative Common license which allows folks to do whatever they want with your work, provided that they give proper credit, or CC0, a Creative Commons license which places your work in the public domain). For a primer to software licensing with a focus on R packages, check out<a href=\"http:\/\/kbroman.org\/pkg_primer\/pages\/licenses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Karl Broman\u2019s discussion on software licenses for R packages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formally licensing your research products with a recognized license (for example, through a Creative Commons license or an Open Data Commons license)\u00a0 provides a consistent and easily understandable way of communicating how other people can interact with those products.\u00a0 Guidelines like the Panton Principles for data sharing give recommendations for licenses that are appropriate for practicing open science. A good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/openscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/openscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/openscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/openscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/openscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/openscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/openscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/openscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}