A quick guide to software licensing for the scientist-programmer

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Morin, Andrew ^a   Urban, Jennifer ^b   Sliz, Piotr ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE LICENSING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LICENSING; MARKETING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATENT;

EID: 84864577288     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002598     Document Type: Article

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