Thank you all for the useful suggestions and links.
I like the idea of using a CC0 license. That's likely what I will go for.
Best,
davide
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:42 AM Tim Triche, Jr. wrote:
> I was going to mention droit d'auteur under EU common law, but somehow
> that seemed more in Hervé
I was going to mention droit d'auteur under EU common law, but somehow that
seemed more in Hervé's wheelhouse ;-).
--t
> On Mar 4, 2016, at 7:17 AM, Lyle Burgoon wrote:
>
> Also keep in mind US copyright rules for data are different from European. We
> ran into this recently when wanting to
Also keep in mind US copyright rules for data are different from European.
We ran into this recently when wanting to publish european data from a web
database.
On Mar 4, 2016 10:05 AM, "Tim Triche, Jr." wrote:
> Data (facts) are not copyright worthy, but databases (collections of
> facts) can be.
Data (facts) are not copyright worthy, but databases (collections of facts) can
be. See Feist v Rural for precedent; in short, there must be an inobvious and
creative aspect to the database for it to be elevated to copyrightable status.
I doubt that a collection of datasets would clear this ba
I am pretty sure in general "data" is not copyrightable per se (
http://www.lib.umich.edu/copyright/facts-and-data), so while I might
contact the original authors as a courtesy, if the data has been released
into any public database, then you should be free to do with it as you
please. Providing th
For data packages, which does not contain any code, it seems weird to use a
software license such as GPL or GPL-2. It seems better to use something
like Artistic-2.0 or one of the CC licenses.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:15 PM, davide risso wrote:
> Hi Hervé and Sean,
>
> thanks for your help. It
Hi Hervé and Sean,
thanks for your help. It will indeed be interesting to hear how other
people chose the license, especially for those package that redistribute a
dataset not from their lab.
I do have an experimental data package in Bioc, zebrafishRNASeq, but it's
an experiment from a collaborat
Hi Davide,
On 03/01/2016 02:25 PM, davide risso wrote:
Dear Bioc developers,
I recently downloaded three publicly available single-cell RNA-seq datasets
from the NCBI GEO/SRA repository and created an R package with some
gene-level summaries (read counts and FPKMs).
I'm currently using the pac
Dear Bioc developers,
I recently downloaded three publicly available single-cell RNA-seq datasets
from the NCBI GEO/SRA repository and created an R package with some
gene-level summaries (read counts and FPKMs).
I'm currently using the package locally for my own tests, but I'm thinking
that this
