Copyright

[graeme-a-stewart]

Currently we offer licencing options, but we don't help with copyright. By default this could go to the author, but it should be possible to assign copyright to another entity as well from the CLI.

[tunnell]

This would have to be a legal entity that could own the copyright, correct? Within our projects, we just choose one of two licenses (Apache2 for libraries, GPL3 for tools) then have it so new authors agree to this independent of who the actual owner is. This means you know the copyright without necessarily knowing the owner, which entails keeping a good AUTHORS file.

[graeme-a-stewart]

That was more or less the idea - it was just that in the current template there was nothing like that at all. Some projects will be (c) to their authors, others to labs or institutes.