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Marcus D. Hanwell | Marcus leads the Open Chemistry project, developing open source tools for chemistry, bioinformatics, and materials science research. He completed an experimental PhD in Physics at the University of Sheffield, a Google Summer of Code developing Avogadro and Kalzium, and a postdoctoral fellowship combining experimental and computational chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh before moving to Kitware in late 2009. He is now a Technical Leader in the Scientific Computing group at Kitware, a member of the Blue Obelisk, blogs, @mhanwell on Twitter and is active on Google+. He is passionate about open science, open source and making sense of increasingly large scientific data to understand the world around us.
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I am going to offer my opinion on the flip side, and why I think that permissive licenses are becoming more popular. I dislike the complexity of copyleft licenses, compatibility, etc. I would rather see my work reused, and prefer to give the freedom to reuse my work in whatever way chosen so long as you give me credit. I think copyleft was important, and in some communities still is, but prefer to contribute to MIT, BSD, Apache licensed projects. I started out fully in the GPL or nothing camp, but over the years have moved to an MIT, BSD, CC-BY, even CC0 for data as science is hard enough without worrying too much about licensing, compliance, interactions, etc.
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