I'm a particle physics theorist. In our field there are a lot of open-source (see http://www.hepforge.org/projects http://www.hepforge.org/projects), as well as

I'm a particle physics theorist. In our field there are a lot of open-source (see http://www.hepforge.org/projects http://www.hepforge.org/projects), as well as some private projects. I believe that source code should be published/shared in tandem with results it produces. Otherwise, those results have no scientific value and I personaly tend not to trust them, even though they are in agreement with well-known predictions. What matters is an algorithm results are obtained with, not results themselves. In other words, scientists should form a hacker-like community and don't get into the trap of a developer-user relationships where some develop while others use software. I actually wanted to know your opinion concerning the migration of open-source to private software. The most common open-source and free software licenses, like MIT or GNU, allow this kind of migration. That is Bob could modify Alice's public project, produce results, and publish them without sharing sources with anybody. That looks unfair, since Alice did a great job and most likely would like to see the changes. How to protect Alice from such situations? Are there any kind of license which forces to share modified software when some results it produces are published or available to the general public?