Here is an interesting article that describes the Supreme Court's decisions
regarding copyright on phone books. The first few paragraphs are the
interesting part.
http://www.peoplesmart.com/blog/public-records-supreme-court-virtual-phonebooks.html
Craig
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Noel O'Boyle <baoille...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The data files in the data directory. For example, the list of SMARTS
> strings used to define the group contributions for the TPSA
> descriptor, psa.txt. This has three copyright statements from OELIB,
> JOELIB x 2, and then a GPL statement. However, it's just 30 lines
> typed in from Peter Ertl's paper.
>
> I guess it's not so important, but maybe going forward we can attach a
> CC0 license to files if they are reusable by others.
>
> - Noel
>
> On 3 March 2012 17:15, Craig James <cja...@emolecules.com> wrote:
> > Hi Noel,
> >
> > Did I miss a previous discussion? Which data files are we talking about?
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Noel O'Boyle <baoille...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> As far as I can tell, there's no particular reason that the data files
> >> be licensed under the GPL.
> >>
> >> I'd like to see them (a) under data licenses, and (b) preferably CC0
> >> so that others can use them without restriction. Clearly, this cannot
> >> be done without the agreement of the original copyright holder.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts?
> >>
> >> - Noel
> >>
> >>
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