Re: Are ‘UniProt’ records complying with the DFSG ?

2011-07-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:50:15PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko a écrit : unfortunately IMHO we (Debian) are not in position to provide such legal service to the community as to claim that something is not copyrightable (e.g., are you sure it is not in all jurisdictions?) in contradiction to

Re: Are ‘UniProt’ records complying with the DFSG ?

2011-07-19 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
eh, I feel your pain... e.g. now I was thinking to re-upload pystatsmodels which was already once rejected due to my omission of mentioning copyright with restrictive license on some quite factual DB. unfortunately IMHO we (Debian) are not in position to provide such legal service to the

Re: Are ‘UniProt’ records complying with the DFSG ?

2011-07-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Charles Plessy: However, the page at the URL above points at Creative Commons' FAQ about databases, which suggests that the file's contents are actually not copyrightable. http://sciencecommons.org/resources/faq/databases/ http://sciencecommons.org/resources/faq/databases/#dbcopyright