[TYPES] artifacts for double blind submissions: what about copyright?

[Eric Eide]

Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt at polytechnique.org> writes:

> I want to submit a paper to a conference that uses light double-blind
> reviewing. A crucial part of the work described by the paper is a piece
> of software, and I feel that it would be difficult to assess the paper
> without being able to run the software, simply to check that it does
> what we claim (this is what a reviewer said in a previous attempt). So I
> want to anonymize the code and include it as an artefact. But that means
> I need to remove all the copyright info, which bothers me a little.
> Should I just not worry about it, or are there better ways to share
> artifacts anonymously?

Submissions to journals and conferencs are generally confidential, and
reviewers are required to treat them as such.  I expect this would apply to
software artifacts, too.  If you are unsure about the policy of the conference
you are submitting to, ask the program chair.

Confidentiality would preclude your code without copyright notices from
"escaping" to the public or being utilized by members of the program committee
for purposes other than review of your submission.

Eric.

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