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

[Xavier Leroy]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:39 PM Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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).


Exactly.  And in case there was any doubt: copyright applies to anonymous
or pseudonymous works, there is no requirement that the actual names of the
authors are revealed.  See
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Anonymous_works .

Regards,

- Xavier Leroy



> 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:
>
> > [ The Types Forum,
> http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list
> > ]
> >
> > 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
> >
>