Am Donnerstag 26 Januar 2012, 21:21:28 schrieb Egon Willighagen: > Hi all, Hi
> > 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)... Kalzium is still using it. Last year I pushed a few patches to upstream and they have been applyed. The only thing that is not yet in bodr are the oxidation states I added last summer. (Kalzium only uses the elements.xml, isotopes.xml and spectra.xml files) > > 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 Thats cool. But it may take a while until Kalzim has changed the parsing code. > > 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 Regards Etienne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! 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-dev2 _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss