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Licenses
The decisions here reflect the mailing list discussion, and could be changed as BONSAI evolves.
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Code authors retain copyright for code hosted under the BONSAMURAIS repository. Such code should be 3-clause BSD (default) or MIT licensed. At this point, we are not accepting copyleft licenses like the GPL, which could limit the spread of BONSAI's ideas and technologies into the private sector.
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For those working in their own repositories, we request that you mention that the code was developed in the context of BONSAI and/or with the support of BONSAI if applicable.
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Data contributed to the BONSAI database needs to be provided with a fully open license (default is CC-BY intl) that allows for commercial use.
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To show the full quality potential of BONSAI it may initially be necessary to have access to a larger pool of data in the short term. The idea is that BONSAI data should be as open as possible, but allowing for more restrictive datapoints (dq:observations) as well, so that the license applicable to any query result will depend on the datapoint with the most restrictive license. A query can then filter out those data points that have too restrictive a license for the intended application. The practical implementation of this requires a definite hierarchy of license types.