first software license in Dataverse guides: MIT

[Philip Durbin]

Does anyone have any strong opinions about how software licenses should look in Dataverse? We're close to adding the MIT license in this pull request: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/pull/10426

Please feel free to leave a review or a comment there or here.

Thanks,

Phil

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[Dieuwertje Bloemen]

Hi Phil,

What we have for the MIT license in our set-up is (benefit is that the dash or no dash question doesn't matter for MIT in the short name "name"):

{
  "uri": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT",
  "name": "MIT",
  "shortDescription": "MIT License.",
  "active": true,
  "sortOrder": 0
}

Because we couldn't find an official logo/image, we didn't include one. We did do this for other software licenses such as the GPL one:

{
  "uri": "https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html",
  "name": "GPL-3.0-or-later",
  "shortDescription": "GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.",
  "iconUrl": "https://www.gnu.org/graphics/gplv3-or-later-sm.png",
  "active": true,
  "sortOrder": 0
}

Kind regards,

Dieuwertje

[Philip Durbin]

Hmm. Interesting! Different than what we have in our pull request. We should get on the same page.

To others, Dieuwertje, Oliver, JP, and I are discussing here if you'd like to join in: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/379673-dev/topic/first.20software.20license.20in.20guides.3A.20MIT/near/429826659

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[Philip Durbin]

JP and I just updated the "add the MIT" license PR. Please take a look: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/pull/10426#issuecomment-2050108042

We are especially interested in what you think about the guidance we just wrote up about adding additional licenses.

[Sherry Lake]

HI Phil,

This brings up a point - I think that terms should really be at the file level, not necessarily at the dataset level (unless all files can have the same terms). Because a dataset has different types of files, different files can have varying terms, such as data files (CC-0) and software (i.e., MIT)

It is discussed in this issue: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/4391

But I don't see an issue directly related to setting terms on files, because some files may need different terms, like software and data, etc.

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[Philip Durbin]

Hmm, I think that issue you mentioned (#4391) covers the need for per-file terms. We could close it in favor of a new one that explains the needs better, if you want.

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