How does research software fit with the open-source software community? – Daniel S. Katz's blog

"While at the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative’s Open Science 2022 Annual Meeting a couple of weeks ago, I was struck by a comment from Demetris Cheatham about how she hadn’t known about the scientific open-source community until she was introduced to it fairly recently, even though she has a huge amount of experience with the larger open-source community. This was especially confounding when she shared that she realized upon learning about us that the voice of our community was missing from her work to create a more inclusive environment within open source.... While open-source is the dominant type of license, and the one I generally prefer, there is also important research software, particularly at the disciplinary level, that is not open source...."