Hi Tom,

This sounds terrific. Yes, it would be very useful if you could share the
source docs. I assume that the Research Policy Handbook is at
https://doresearch.stanford.edu/policies/research-policy-handbook ?

-John

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Tom Cramer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> John,
>
> At Stanford, this is governed by the Research Policy Handbook; there is
> some tech transfer and copyright detail, but essentially it says staff may
> release University-funded code with with an open source license with
> officer (Dean-level) approval.
>
> At Stanford, we have put this into place with blanket approval for
> releasing any code we deem shareable under a license (Apache 2 being
> default, but not required). We have similar approval under the same terms
> to release non-code artifacts under a CC license.
>
> Based on this, we have templates for inserting license files into repos on
> Github, and default text to use for copyright statements.
>
> I can dig up source docs if that's useful.
>
> - Tom
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 8, 2015, at 4:22 PM, John A. Kunze wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have existing institutional policy guidelines for staff who
> > contribute to open source software projects?
> >
> > A group at the California Digital Library is looking to learn from prior
> > art in dealing appropriately with non-technical things like licensing,
> > intellectual property, legal policy, cost/benefit issues, etc.
> >
> > It would be great if any of you have something like that to share.
> >
> > -John
>