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Free software, Open source software, licenses. A short presentation including a procedure for research software and data dissemination

Computers and Society 2014-09-12 v2
Authors: Teresa Gomez-Diaz
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Abstract

The main goal of this document is to help the research community to understand the basic concepts of software distribution: Free software, Open source software, licenses. This document also includes a procedure for research software and data dissemination.

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open source software scholarly communication software engineering

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@article{arxiv.1409.3143,
  title  = {Free software, Open source software, licenses. A short presentation including a procedure for research software and data dissemination},
  author = {Teresa Gomez-Diaz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.3143},
  year   = {2014}
}

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