Intellectual Property Considerations
All materials contributed to HUBzero.org must have clearly defined rights and privileges. We have instituted the following guidelines for all materials uploaded onto this site:
Simulation Tools
Simulation tools can be made available online through HUBzero's
unique middleware, so
users don't have to download or install any source code. As such, the
source code for your tool can be completely protected, and may not require
any license. We do encourage our developers, however, to release their
tools as open source so that
others can build upon their work. Purdue University has a process in
place at the Office of Technology and
Commercialization (OTC) to approve code written by Purdue employees
for open source release. The Purdue OTC office prefers the
NCSA-style license.
Other institutions may have their own policies for licensing and code
release. Please check with your local institution for details. If you
decide to make your source code available for download, we do require
that you include some well-defined license so that our users clearly
understand how they are allowed to use your source code.
Online Presentations and Other Materials
We strongly encourage contributors of online presentations, teaching
materials, animations, and other materials to adopt the
Creative Commons 3.0 license.
This allows others to use your work for non-commercial purposes, but
they must acknowledge you as a source and share their derivative works
under the same license. Note that this also gives you an opportunity
to build upon their work!
We strongly encourage all contributors to adopt these licensing guidelines. If you want to contribute, but for some reason you are unable to agree to these licenses, please contact us, so we can follow up and discuss other options.