On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Egon Willighagen <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > If this is truly data it is better to declare it as Open data and choose
> a
> > licence compatible with that PPDL or CC0.
>
> Thanx for brining this up. The current MIT license was picked as best
> thing around at the time. When I made the release last month, I
> already planned to bring up relicensing as CC0, but been too busy and
> forgot.
>
> > There should be no concept of
> > owner, though you should attribute the authorship.
>
> The current copyright owners are:
>
> Geoff Hutchinson
> Carsten Niehaus
> Egon Willighagen
> Jörg Buchwald
> Martin Pfeiffer
>
I would prefer not to use the phrase "copyright owner" unless it is clear
what is being copyrighted. You cannot formally copyright the data (although
people do). You can copyright the database under European law though I would
discourage this.
P.
> Can all please respond to this:
>
> Do you agree to relicense your BODR MIT contributions as Creative
> Commons Zero (CC0)?
>
> Konstantin, you could simply mark your data as CC0.
>
> > If you have taken it
> > straight from someone else's compilation (e.g. Merck Handbook) you might
> be
> > breaking copyright though you may not. It's a gray area.
>
> Indeed. Which is why we need clear statements.
>
> Konstantin, is your source literature primary literature? That would
> be ideal by far...
>
> I do not have email addresses of Jörg Buchwald and Martin Pfeiffer...
> if you have contact addresses for either or both, please let me know.
>
> Egon
>
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Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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