Re: EADL license

[Hendrik Weimer]

Walter Landry  writes:

> Florian Weimer  wrote:
>> 
>> Debian is also available in Europe, where the U.S. government is not
>> barred by U.S. law from obtaining and enforcing copyright of its
>> works.  Europeanl law also has copyright-like protections for certain
>> collections of facts.
>
> In practice, Debian already distributes these kinds of works.

Sure, but this is not necessarily an active decision, it could also
result from a lack of awareness of the legal situation.

Hendrik

Re: EADL license

[Walter Landry]

Florian Weimer  wrote:
> * Walter Landry:
> 
>> The EADL data was created by US Government employees (Lawrence
>> Livermore).  So there is no copyright in the US.  Also, in the US,
>> there is no copyright in a set of facts.  However, as a courtesy, you
>> should preserve the credits.
> 
> Debian is also available in Europe, where the U.S. government is not
> barred by U.S. law from obtaining and enforcing copyright of its
> works.  Europeanl law also has copyright-like protections for certain
> collections of facts.

In practice, Debian already distributes these kinds of works.

  
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/o/openjpeg/openjpeg_1.5.2-3_copyright

  See the entry for applications/mj2/meta_out.*

So I think it is fine in this case as well.

> Frederic-Emmanuel, the license you quoted does not seem to give
> permission to make modifications (and redistribute them).  Only
> permission of unmodified copies seems to be allowed.

True.  I do not think it matters.

Cheers,
Walter Landry

Re: EADL license

[Florian Weimer]

* Walter Landry:

> The EADL data was created by US Government employees (Lawrence
> Livermore).  So there is no copyright in the US.  Also, in the US,
> there is no copyright in a set of facts.  However, as a courtesy, you
> should preserve the credits.

Debian is also available in Europe, where the U.S. government is not
barred by U.S. law from obtaining and enforcing copyright of its
works.  Europeanl law also has copyright-like protections for certain
collections of facts.

Frederic-Emmanuel, the license you quoted does not seem to give
permission to make modifications (and redistribute them).  Only
permission of unmodified copies seems to be allowed.

Re: EADL license

[Walter Landry]

PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel  wrote:
> Hello still exploring my package
> 
> I found this.
> 
> Is it DFSG-free ?
> 
> #F EADL97_MShellConstants.dat
> #U00 This file is a conversion to specfile format of
> #U01 directly extracted EADL97 Shell constants.
> #U02 to simplify its use with the fisx and PyMca software packages.
> #U03
> #U04 Neither those packages or their author(s) claim any ownership of
> #U05 the data and they do not warrant the integrity of the data
> following
> #U07 the conversion process.
> #U06
> #U07 EADL itself can be found at:
> #U08   http://www-nds.iaea.org/epdl97/libsall.htm
> #U09 The code used to generate this file has been:
> #U10 GenerateEADLShellConstants.py
> #U11
> #U12 The proper way to quote these data is:
> #U13 D.E. Cullen, et al., "Tables and Graphs of Atomic Subshell and
> #U14 Relaxation Data Derived from the LLNL Evaluated Atomic Data Library
> #U15 (EADL), Z = 1 - 100," Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
> UCRL-50400,
> #U16  Vol. 30, October 1991
> #U17 The author of this data, D.E. Cullen, has stated that
> redistribution of this
> #U18 data is permitted provided the previous credits are maintained.
> #U19
> 
> just for informations, these DATA are scientific fact (it is important right 
> ?)

The EADL data was created by US Government employees (Lawrence
Livermore).  So there is no copyright in the US.  Also, in the US,
there is no copyright in a set of facts.  However, as a courtesy, you
should preserve the credits.

Cheers,
Walter Landry

EADL license

[PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel]

Hello still exploring my package

I found this.

Is it DFSG-free ?

#F EADL97_MShellConstants.dat
#U00 This file is a conversion to specfile format of
#U01 directly extracted EADL97 Shell constants.
#U02 to simplify its use with the fisx and PyMca software packages.
#U03
#U04 Neither those packages or their author(s) claim any ownership of
#U05 the data and they do not warrant the integrity of the data
following
#U07 the conversion process.
#U06
#U07 EADL itself can be found at:
#U08   http://www-nds.iaea.org/epdl97/libsall.htm
#U09 The code used to generate this file has been:
#U10 GenerateEADLShellConstants.py
#U11
#U12 The proper way to quote these data is:
#U13 D.E. Cullen, et al., "Tables and Graphs of Atomic Subshell and
#U14 Relaxation Data Derived from the LLNL Evaluated Atomic Data Library
#U15 (EADL), Z = 1 - 100," Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
UCRL-50400,
#U16  Vol. 30, October 1991
#U17 The author of this data, D.E. Cullen, has stated that
redistribution of this
#U18 data is permitted provided the previous credits are maintained.
#U19

just for informations, these DATA are scientific fact (it is important right ?)


Cheers


Frederic