Here is an interesting article that describes the Supreme Court's decisions
regarding copyright on phone books. The first few paragraphs are the
interesting part.
http://www.peoplesmart.com/blog/public-records-supreme-court-virtual-phonebooks.html
Craig
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Noel O'B
> I guess it's not so important, but maybe going forward we can attach a
> CC0 license to files if they are reusable by others.
Some of the files come via the Blue Obelisk Data Repository, so these aren't
covered by GPL even if the header says that.
Some of the other files would be a bit tricky
The data files in the data directory. For example, the list of SMARTS
strings used to define the group contributions for the TPSA
descriptor, psa.txt. This has three copyright statements from OELIB,
JOELIB x 2, and then a GPL statement. However, it's just 30 lines
typed in from Peter Ertl's paper.
Hi Noel,
Did I miss a previous discussion? Which data files are we talking about?
Craig
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Noel O'Boyle wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> As far as I can tell, there's no particular reason that the data files
> be licensed under the GPL.
>
> I'd like to see them (a) under da
Hello all,
As far as I can tell, there's no particular reason that the data files
be licensed under the GPL.
I'd like to see them (a) under data licenses, and (b) preferably CC0
so that others can use them without restriction. Clearly, this cannot
be done without the agreement of the original cop
