Hi Folks,<div><br></div><div>I'm a Phd student in the area of decision analysis and have been making decision models for public safety that I'd like to put out there for administrators working on such issues, to help clarify their thinking. Most of this work is in the form of Excel models. I want to go the open-source route - but I don't know of any license that can be put on excel models. The closest seems to be a modified form of the LGPL for Excel macros. The intellectual property that I want to protect is in the wiring of the spreadsheet and sometimes in the macros.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Would love to hear suggestions. Here are the two alternatives I've come up with so far:</div><div>1) Come up with a new open-source license for the content of spreadsheet files in general</div><div>
2) Come up with a new open-source license for Decision Models (this includes the idea of the model, as represented in powerpoint slides, spreadsheet models or code). </div><div><br></div><div>Is there an obvious alternative that I am missing? Since we are at the intersection of code and documents, would creative commons be a better license?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your reflections.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Somik<br>-- <br>Somik Raha<br>Doctoral Candidate<br>Decision and Risk Analysis<br>Dept. of Management Science & Engg.<br>Stanford University<br>
(650) 450-8246<br><a href="mailto:somik@stanford.edu">somik@stanford.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~somik/">http://www.stanford.edu/~somik/</a><br><br>************************************************<br>The essence of the moral reformer and of the creator in the field of art lies in not adjusting to the predominant norms or tastes, but unfurling the flag of what "ought to be" over and above people's preferences.<br>
-- Risieri Frondizi, in "What is Value?", Pg. 30 (1971)<br>************************************************<br>
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