List primary areas of law? Copyright, Patent, & Trade mark.

I think CC0 is technically the most open as this carries not obligation to attribute the work.

Good place to have a mention of JoVE https://www.jove.com/

Is mastodon and a few of the academic instances worth a mention here now?

Also: - bioicons.com/ - https://openmoji.org

Podcast are also an open! with distribution based on XML and RSS.

If you are starting a new podcast keep podcasting open by avoiding exclusive distribution through platforms like Spotify that are attempting to consolidate the ecosystem with proprietary distribution and DRM locked content.

Use the podcasting 2.0 name space for new features like chapters and transcripts baked into and backwards compatible with existing podcast RSS feeds: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/podcasting2.0.md

This is a potentially relevant citation to include here "The readability of scientific texts is decreasing over time" https://elifesciences.org/articles/27725

Might be worth considering the ethics of analytics trackers and alternatives to google analytics. see: https://rigorousthemes.com/blog/open-source-google-analytics-alternatives/

docx is now mostly an open spec that can be used with open source office suites like LibreOffice and OnlyOffice. Though the .ODT open document text format is preferable.

A reference to BFG repo cleaner https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ would probably be useful here.

Should probably emphasise that this does not remove any such files from the git history.

Note that some conventional secure deletion methods do not translate well from HDDs to SSDs and data on SSDs deleted with software designed for HDDs may not always be physically overwritten as SSDs often 'pretend' to behave like HDDs to operating systems for legacy compatibility and actually do different things from what they report.

(Accurate assurances that you can back up in practice - there should be clarity about limitations & risks)

Is it a good idea to include GM plants on this list as 'posing a direct threat to humans...'? This may unnecessarily contribute to unfounded heath concerns over GM plants.

This fine to mention but should probably not be recommended. It will likely upset linters and syntax highlighting. The recommend approach would I think definitely be commenting out multiple lines.

(The RStudio short-cut for block comments is Ctrl+Shift+C)

A hash (#) is used. A hashtag is a hash symbol prepended to a string for example: #hashtag. The 'tag' part of a 'hashtag' is the string following the hash until the next space.

It can be useful to use different conventions for different things. function, objects, global variables etc. might each have their own style to make them immediately visually identifiable.

Cross-reference to section on semantic versioning?

Some of this looks as though it has already been written the next sub-chapter do these need deleting from here?

Discussion of reproducible binary builds?

reuse?

Are there any cover coverage tools that tell you what proportion of your code is run how many times by your test suite and give you a coverage histogram?