Public availability and tracability of results from publically-funded work is
a topic that gets more and more attention from funding agencies and scientific
policy makers. However, most policies focus on data as the output of research.
In this contribution, we focus on research software and we introduce the ASTRON
Open Source Policy. Apart from the license used (Apache 2.0), the policy is
written as a manual that explains how to license software, when to assign a
Digital Object Identifier (DOI), and defines that all code should be put in an
ASTRON managed repository. The policy has been made publically available, a DOI
has been assigned to it and it has been put in a repository to stimulate the
ADASS community to start a conversation on how to make our code publically
accessible and citable.Comment: Submitted to the Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems
Conference (ADASS) XXIX, 201
