Adding Open Source License

[gwaybio]

Hi @jr0th - thanks again for making your code public. It has been very helpful in our cell health project! (specifically in broadinstitute/cell-health#122)

I strongly suggest that you add a permissive open source license to this project.

I noticed that in your thesis document, you state "Used code and data are publicly available". With this statement, I assume that an open source license applies. However, it is good to remove the need for this assumption!

Recommendation

I recommend that you checkout https://choosealicense.com/ and determine which license would work best for this project.

I suggest a CC0 or MIT license.

One other thing to consider is that the segmentation repository contains both code and a written thesis. It is possible to use a different license for different aspects of a project. See here for a dual license example.

Cheers!
Greg

[shntnu]

I support this idea, and a dual license sounds good. I'm copying the text from the repo that @gwaygenomics linked

The content of this project itself is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, and the underlying source code used to format and display that content is licensed under the MIT license.

For the thesis, you could consider CC BY-NC 4.0. The paper is apparently is more restrictive (CC BY-NC 4.0) but I don't see a good reason for that.

For the code, we've typically gone with BSD-3-Clause and I think it is better than MIT (at least in this context) because it of this extra bit:

Neither the name of the [organization] nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.