Re: [CODE4LIB] know of guidelines for contributing to open source projects?

2015-01-11 Thread John Kunze
Thanks very much, Tom. This is really helpful stuff. On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote: John, Here are the relevant source docs at Stanford: Research Policy Handbook, Section 9.2: Copyright Policy, which states that the copyright of artistic, scholarly

Re: [CODE4LIB] know of guidelines for contributing to open source projects?

2015-01-10 Thread Tom Cramer
John, Here are the relevant source docs at Stanford: Research Policy Handbook, Section 9.2: Copyright Policy, which states that the copyright of artistic, scholarly and pedagogical works remain with the creator, unless the work is a work-for-hire, or an institutional work. (We interpret

Re: [CODE4LIB] know of guidelines for contributing to open source projects?

2015-01-09 Thread John Kunze
Thanks, Stuart. This is great site to know about. -John On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Stuart A. Yeates syea...@gmail.com wrote: OSS Watch is a JISC-funded, Oxford, UK-based service that is funded to answer questions like this: http://oss-watch.ac.uk/ cheers stuart -- ...let us be

Re: [CODE4LIB] know of guidelines for contributing to open source projects?

2015-01-09 Thread John Kunze
Hi Tom, This sounds terrific. Yes, it would be very useful if you could share the source docs. I assume that the Research Policy Handbook is at https://doresearch.stanford.edu/policies/research-policy-handbook ? -John On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] know of guidelines for contributing to open source projects?

2015-01-08 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
OSS Watch is a JISC-funded, Oxford, UK-based service that is funded to answer questions like this: http://oss-watch.ac.uk/ cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:22 PM, John A. Kunze j...@ucop.edu wrote: Does anyone have existing institutional

Re: [CODE4LIB] know of guidelines for contributing to open source projects?

2015-01-08 Thread Tom Cramer
John, At Stanford, this is governed by the Research Policy Handbook; there is some tech transfer and copyright detail, but essentially it says staff may release University-funded code with with an open source license with officer (Dean-level) approval. At Stanford, we have put this into

[CODE4LIB] know of guidelines for contributing to open source projects?

2015-01-08 Thread John A. Kunze
Does anyone have existing institutional policy guidelines for staff who contribute to open source software projects? A group at the California Digital Library is looking to learn from prior art in dealing appropriately with non-technical things like licensing, intellectual property, legal