Which software license for research/academic work?
from spaciouscoder78@lemmy.ml to opensource@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 2026 12:29
https://lemmy.ml/post/42095079

I’m active in circles associated with FSF and I often hear them saying research or academic software or programs must be licensed under GPL to prevent the work from being used in proprietary software.

But as a researcher I think that’s just involving politics in scientific work. I like BSD or MIT for research because it gives more flexibility for the users to use my work in anyway they see fit.

I think restricting my research work removes the point of it if it can’t be used freely by any person for any kind of work.

What do you people think?

#opensource