Licenses

Please, please, please license your public GitHub repositories. This protects your intellectual property and governs how any code you produce for your course can be used by others.

For brand new repositories, we suggest using a BSD-3 License. We will not re-do the work of many others who have written on the subject of choosing an open source license, so check out GitHub’s article or search around for yourself. We highly recommend that all public repositories have an open source license. Think of open source as the norm and the default, and think carefully when considering going against this norm.

If you’re starting with a template from berkeley-cdss or previous repositories in a DATA course GitHub Organization, the materials you’re working with should already be licensed. If you’re working with a combination of already licensed materials, ensure that any additional licenses you choose are compatible.

We do not provide any specific guidance on licensing private repositories.