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This page covers what the BIOP needs to do when releasing scripts and code under various softwares

EPFL Licensing Information

EPFL Licensing is managed through the EPFL Technology Transfer Office (TTO)
https://tto.epfl.ch/before_sharing

TL;DR

EPFL has the full copyright
Who did what in the code shoud be made explicit
Contact TTO before sharing code made with people outside EPFL
All software must be approved by head of laboratory before sharing
Always attach LICENSE.TXT file to projects
Always check the license of the libraries used for the code
Most are GPLv3 but sometimes they can be different

Licenses Depending on Software

This table lists under what license we can publish our work

Software	License
Imaris XTension	GPLv3
R Studio	MIT, compatible with GPLv3
Matlab	FreeBSD compatible with GPLv3
Fiji	GPLv3, see here for all licenses
CellProfiler	BSD-3, compatible with GPLv3
Arivis	GPLv3
QuPath	GPLv3

For the BIOP

Whenever possible, we release in GPLv3

Programming code should NOT be released under Creative Commons. Figures and text are not a problem

Typical code header and license information should be as follows

= CODE DESCRIPTION =
What the code does
  == INPUTS ==
What the code needs to run

 == OUTPUTS ==
What the code returns

= DEPENDENCIES =
If the software needs additional libraries, where they are and how to install them

= INSTALLATION = 
How to install and run the code

= AUTHOR INFORMATION =
Code written by XXX XXX, EPFL - SV -PTECH - BIOP 
for XXX XXX, Lab XXX
DATE

= COPYRIGHT =
© All rights reserved. ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE, Switzerland, BioImaging And Optics Platform (BIOP), 2018

Licensed under GNU General Public License (GLP) version 3
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.