Services and Templates
Acknowledgement Form of OSS Distribution and License
The old Exploitation Guideline (RSETHZ 440.4), currently still in force, requires that the decision of OSS release must be approved by all software authors and the professor; meanwhile, the planned revision of this guideline only requires approval by the professor, even if he or she is not an author. For more details about the policy, please refer to our Policies and Processes page.
Under either the current or the upcoming policy, to ensure transparency and proper documentation, we strongly recommend that all ETH authors and the professor co-sign the simple OSS acknowledgement form (see below for the download link). The form serves to confirm and document the OSS release (including future releases), the chosen OSS license, and the authorship. It also ensures informed consent while helping to prevent potential authorship disputes.
Assignment Agreement Templates
To enable IP transfers from non-employee students to ETH Zurich, we provide below the IP assignment agreement template, which involves the assignment of copyright associated with OSS (not including moral rights). The agreement must be signed by the student and the supervisor or the responsible Research Group Leader (normally professors or heads of platforms and scientific facilities, as defined in Article 3, Para. 9 of the Guidelines for Research Data Management at ETH Zurich (RSETHZ 414.2)).
OSS Contributor Agreement
(under construction)