To ensure others can reuse your software, you need to license it for reuse.
How?
Use one of the following resources to select a suitable licence for your work.
Example
A short and simple permissive licence is MIT (MIT License \Textbar Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX), n.d.; “Open Source Software Licenses 101: The MIT License - FOSSA,” 2021). The only conditions of use are that you preserve the copyright
and licence notices. Choosing an MIT licence means you are permitting: commercial use, distribution, modification, sublicense (extend
or remove rights of the original licence), and private use. The limitations exist to protect the author, and do not provide warranty
of any kind. The work is provided “as is” and users may not hold the author liable.
Key groups in the bioinformatics community (e.g. nf-core and Snakemake) recommend this licence.
References
Page resources
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| Choose an open source license | Online resource that helps you to choose a suitable open source license.
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| nf-core | Community effort focused on developing Nextflow workflows.
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| Snakemake | Workflow management system.
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| tl;drLegal | Clear summaries of software licenses.
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