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

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On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 at 15:52, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote:

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> * Alan Schmitt:
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> > 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?
>
> Is the software an original work created by the same authors as the
> paper?  Then Stefan's comment applies.



>

Otherwise, it's much more complicated.  It definitely sounds
> problematic to remove copyright notices that you yourself did not add.
> On the other hand, people routinely do that when they compile software
> and upload it to someone else's computer for execution, without
> preserving these notices notices, even when the copyright notices
> explicitly state that distribution of binaries must preserve these
> notices.


But you need only remove names of the _authors_, not of anybody else, even
if their name were a strong hint: light double-blind is not meant to
_prevent_ inferring the names (at least in SIGPLAN's case).