The related general information about OSS licences and a whitepaper for GÉANT participants are also available.
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Copyright is a form of intellectual property that allows the legal creator of an original work to license that work to the extent governed by copyright law. Declaring copyright on a work does not require any registration or official notice but simply requires clearly and visibly stating the copyright and defining its subject. The copyright can also be easily transferred to another party, typically through a contract or statement. Since open software source licences already open up the work to anyone under clear conditions, copyrights as such are not a problem, but the exact details of these conditions are. The licensing concern related to copyright is whether the licence states it and how the text of the licence and copyright notice (with the original copyright and attribution marks) should be included with the licensed material and presented. For example, the inclusion of the copyright may be required only for the source code or may also include binaries.
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This best practice provides a simple outline of the actions that software teams need to take. These include scanning their projects for dependencies, licences and vulnerabilities using Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools, analysing the results, remediating any detected issues, setting a LICENSE file in projects, declaring the licence in their source code and repositories and tracking and maintaining licence conformance through internal checks and appropriate tools. All these actions should align with the declared licence, the GÉANT IPR Policy and with the support of the WP9 Task 2 Open Software Source Licensing Support and the GÉANT IPR Coordinator.
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