>> It was a lot of work to collect this data, and we spend a lot of >> time and money keeping it very current. > > Doesn't the latter not include 'creativity' ?
I am not a lawyer, but I think Craig is specifying that the data is a compilation / collection. In US copyright law, you cannot assert copyright on a collection of facts. Some dictionaries, encyclopedias, and even trivia games copyright the intentional mistakes. > I would even go as far as the conformers certainly being creative > models, having little to do with natural facts... These are, perhaps, copyright-worthy, but one could also argue that they are also a simple transformation from the known (factual) molecular structure into 3D coordinates and conformers using an open source code (RDKit). Cheers, -Geoff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
