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Hello,
We are researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) undertaking a research project on open source software. 
You are receiving this email as a maintainer of the following public GitHub repo.

https://github.com/hobu/usgs-lidar

Based on academic research on how software licenses influence project success, we encourage you to adopt a General Public License v3.0 (GPL 3.0) for your project.
Previous research has shown that adoption of licenses like GPL 3.0 can contribute to project success, including higher developer membership and higher core developer activity[1],
as well as increased interest of users and system administrators[2].

To adopt GPL 3.0 as your repository license, please click this pre-filled link:


https://github.com/hobu/usgs-lidar/community/license/new?branch=master&template=gpl-3.0


By clicking on this link you consent to participate in this voluntary study. Any resulting data will be stored securely and used exclusively for academic research.
If you would like to learn more about software licenses or about our work, please visit our project profile page:
https://blogs.ethz.ch/open-source-research/

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please write back to this email address mentioning "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line, and we will not contact you further.

Best regards,
Elliott Ash and Swagatam Sinha
Law, Economics, and Data Science Group,
Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences,
ETH Zurich

1 "Impact of license choice on Open Source Software development activity", Colazo and Fang, 2009
2 "Determinants of open source software project success: A longitudinal study", Chandrasekar Subramaniam, Ravi Sen, Matthew L. Nelson, 2009