Data license choice in the Submit to NCEI tab

[lqjiang]

Would you please add a new radio button asking users to make a choice about the data licenses? Please talk to Eugene and John for details. They are the experts in this topic.

We encourage external data contributors to assign CC0-1.0 onto their data, which ensures maximum usage of the data throughout the industry, for anyone's use and for any purpose. For contributors who wish to maintain copyright on their data, the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) is a befitting option. Under this license, the data may be used by anyone, for any purpose, so long as credit is given to the provider when using the data in its original form.

NCEI has similar guidance, see https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive:
NCEI will strongly encourage providers to apply a Creative Commons CC0 (preferred) or CC BY 4.0 license in grant or agreement language, or upon submission.

[lkamb]

There is some debate about whether this should be on the Dashboard Submit page or in the MetadataEditor.

[lqjiang]

I vote for the former, i.e., Submit page. After all, it is a license, instead of an element of the metadata record (although technically it is).