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

[Gabriel Scherer]

If some piece of software does not come with copyright notices, it does
*not* mean that it is in the public domain! (Just like: if you find a book
manuscript or a painting without a signature, its copyright still belongs
to its author.) By default, the usual copyright rules apply, and they are
very restrictive (basically one is not allowed to do anything with the code
or the software). Copyright notices establish authorship, but they are also
crucial to *relax* those by-default restrictions by specifying a more
permissive license to use the software or its source code.

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 3:10 PM Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt at polytechnique.org>
wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this question, but I don't
> know of a forum where I could reach as many researchers who might have
> the same problem. Please tell me if there is a better place.
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan
>