Hi all, since we just had a patch for BODR data, this may be the best moment to discuss the future of BODR... there are still several projects using it, though it may that Kalzium stopped using it (not entirely sure)...
There are a few patches / bug reports, which I will want to apply, and I also want to move away from XML towards RDF, and to write a few tools to create easier to parse files, which previously has been done by software using the data. Making it RDF means it can be more easily shared in the semantic web, and this automatically be easily accessible by websites, etc, etc. However, I also like to see the data relicensed to CCZero, which is pretty much in line with the MIT license, but CCZero is better suited for data. Effectively, we're waiving all rights, allowing anyone to do with the BODR data they like. This is what the MIT license also allows, but still is a license. Adoption of the CCZero license is perfectly in line with the ODOSOS ideas of the Blue Obelisk. I will forward this message to everyone who contributed data to the BODR data (this list of AUTHORS can be found in the source code repository) to ask permission to make this change of 'license' to CCZero (which technically is a waiver, not a license). I will summarize here. Somehow, I feel I have asked for this before, but I could not find any reference of it in my email archives. Egon -- Dr E.L. Willighagen Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/) Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
