On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 4:41:02 PM UTC, John Cremona wrote:
>
> From the bug-report spreadsheet:
>
> I am a PhD student in Mathematics at Oxford interested in identifying 
> modular forms given their q expansions. To do this it would be useful to 
> have a copy of the `webnewforms` collection listed here 
> https://github.com/LMFDB/lmfdb-inventory/blob/master/db-modularforms2.md. 
> As far as I can see I can download this this from the readonly MongoDB host 
> at m0.lmfdb.xyz.
>
> However, before I do it, I just wanted to check that it's ok to make a 
> large query direct to the database, i.e. not through the website, and that 
> I won't be violating some kind of (possibly informal) fair use policy.
>

IMHO the fair use of such data is that you contribute something back, if 
you can.   
E.g. the downloader could try to contribute code, or docs, or bugfixes to 
Sagemath, or some other related  open source project ;-)
(e.g. via GSoC, or not...)

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