{"id":1549,"date":"2022-11-02T15:51:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/?page_id=1549"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:37:38","slug":"software-and-code-licenses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/share-and-preserve-your-code\/software-and-code-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Software and Code Licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Software\/code\/scripts are increasingly shared in parallel with data. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41597-022-01710-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Well-documented, preserved, and shared code is aligned with FAIR principles. <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"> <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These resources can help you select an appropriate license for your code.<\/p>\n<p>New to licenses, or just want to keep it simple? Start here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/choosealicense.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Choose an open source license <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"> <\/i><\/a> &#8211; Simplified license chooser for some common licenses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More extensive lists of licenses for software:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.org\/licenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Source Initiative (OSI) Approved Licenses <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"> <\/i><\/a> &#8211; Search and filter a large list of OSI-approved options<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/spdx.org\/licenses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">System Package Data Exchange (SPDX) <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"> <\/i><\/a> &#8211; lncludes OSI approved licenses and others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check the repository where you deposit the code or scripts to see which licenses it supports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/share\/licenses\/#data\">licenses for data<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/share\/licenses\/#copyright\">licenses for copyrightable works<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software\/code\/scripts are increasingly shared in parallel with data. Well-documented, preserved, and shared code is aligned with FAIR principles. These resources can help you select an appropriate license for your code. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"parent":1304,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-data.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1549\/revisions\/2898"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}