and NEVER use Non-Commercial. It doesn't work . NEVER. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Craig James <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 2/24/11 7:32 AM, Steffen Neumann wrote: > > I am looking for suggestions for licenses for MassBank. > > > > www.massbank.jp (and msbi.ipb-halle.de/MassBank) is a federated database > > of mass spectra from various contributors. We don't require > > any contributor agreements, and simply collect what we're given. > > > > Currently, neither the database as a whole nor individual records > > have a license statement, which I'd like to remedy asap. > > > > Each contributor might have some opinion about licenses > > for his/her own records, so I'd like to not impose anything, > > rather suggest one (or few) plausible options. > > I'm with Peter on this one: You have to pick one license and go with it. > "Microlicensing" (a great term) will be a disaster. I'd suggest that you > start a discussion with your contributers, try to find a consensus, and go > with the one that you think will get the most acceptance. You'll probably > lose some spectra, but the benefits of a single, clear license policy will > outweigh the loss. > > On top of that, you might be able to make the case that by contributing in > the first place, people were giving their spectra into the public domain. > Was there any doubt that the library was intended to be widely distributed? > It would be hard for someone to argue that they gave you a bunch of spectra > but didn't want you to distribute them freely. > > Craig > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in > Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT > data > generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, > virtual > or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business > insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss > -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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