[Please reply to debian-science mailing list - I'd like to widen the audience a bit.]
Hi, the somehow longish thread on the Debian Med mailing list starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2011/07/msg00146.html makes me wondering what you are thinking about licensing scientific data. For one moment I was thinking that it is a correct thing to release scientific data under a license which does not allow changing the data because - hey, I do not want even myself change the result of my measurements so why should anybody else do so. However there was some interesting argument that some data might be in some unusable format and simply needed reformating to be used by the usual programs which handle this kind of data. So what the license should actually reflect is that we do not want anybody to change the real content like changing / adding / removing numbers or something like this. There is no need to forbid changes which are relevant for say the MD5 sum of the file but just changing the spacing. What do you think about this and should we probably put this issue on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/ProblemsToWorkOn which lists our "problems to discuss". (BTW, this page needs to be updated after DebConf - Sylvestre, did you by chance saved the gobby file because gobby.debian.net was switched off and the disks have been shredded according to zobel - please do not let me comment on this procedure without notification of users.) Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
