On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 03:26:08PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Please seek for "drugs/master.db" to find the relevant licensing > information about the compilation of data. As far as I understand > upstream upstream the database in the old version is featuring the same > data sources in older version (but unlikely with different licenses). > > In case the version in Squeeze would be considered free also all > other versions are free (which would be *really* good news). So > please, please prove me wrong in my opinion that this database is > not distributable. I'm specifically concerned about:
I'm not an FTP master, though. > 3) French drugs database and drug-drug interaction (starting point): > http://afssaps-prd.afssaps.fr/php/ecodex > License: free for non commercial use © AFSSAPS > License terms: http://www.afssaps.fr/Mentions-legales So it's distributable and basically of the same nature than the other data sources, except that they are claiming that copyright applies because of a different jurisdiction. And it's just about drugs-fr_FR.db, which might belong to non-free if such a declarative collection of entries needs to adhere to the DFSG. > 6) Eudapharm drugs database partially used > License:. > License terms: > http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/regulation/general/general_content_000178.jsp&jsenabled=true > In particular, unless otherwise stated, the Agency, according. > to current European Union and international legislation1, is the owner > of. > copyright and database rights of this website and its contents. > . > Information and documents made available on the Agency's webpages are > public. > and may be reproduced and/or distributed, totally or in part, > irrespective of the. > means and/or the formats used, for non-commercial and commercial > purposes, provided > that the Agency is always acknowledged as the source of the material. > Such > acknowledgement must be included in each copy of the material. > ... What's the problem with that? The missing license to allow modification? Even then it would still be distributable, which is distinct from not belonging into main. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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