Re: Licsensing scientific data

2011-08-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 02:21:33AM +0100, Peter Cock wrote: I have had an initial reply that the licensing issue will be raised at the next UniProt consortium meeting, but in the meantime they recommend downloading test files via the UniProt API as part of a test suite, rather than bundling

Re: Licsensing scientific data

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Cock
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 02:21:33AM +0100, Peter Cock wrote: I have had an initial reply that the licensing issue will be raised at the next UniProt consortium meeting, but in the meantime they recommend downloading test

Re: Licsensing scientific data

2011-08-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 07:18:57AM +0100, Peter Cock wrote: Seems to be a reasonable compromise specifically because you can be qute sure to fetch up to date files. Agreed. Of course one of the downsides is you might want to also test old data (the formatting of data files from public

Re: Licsensing scientific data

2011-08-22 Thread Peter Cock
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Peter Cock p.j.a.c...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear all, I have now emailed UniProt regarding the recent discussion on the Debian-Med list about the UniProt CC BY-ND 3.0 licence stemming from the inclusion of example data from UniProt in EMBOSS (and potentially

Re: Licsensing scientific data

2011-08-15 Thread Peter Cock
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Peter Cock p.j.a.c...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: Could anybody contact UniProt whether this whole issue is not intended but just an effect of not (yet) updated web page? Kind regards      

Re: Licsensing scientific data

2011-08-12 Thread Egon Willighagen
Hi Andreas, On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: 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

Re: Licsensing scientific data

2011-08-12 Thread Peter Cock
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Egon Willighagen egon.willigha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andreas, On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: For one moment I was thinking that it is a correct thing to release scientific data under a license which does not allow

Re: Licsensing scientific data

2011-08-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 02:36:17PM +0100, Peter Cock wrote: ... I believe that UniProt should follow the revised advice of the Creative Commons, and not use a CC licenses: http://sciencecommons.org/resources/faq/databases/ Ironically the UniProt license page

Re: Licsensing scientific data

2011-08-12 Thread Peter Cock
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: Could anybody contact UniProt whether this whole issue is not intended but just an effect of not (yet) updated web page? Kind regards      Andreas. I've emailed a contact at UniProt to try and find out more, and in

Re: Licsensing scientific data

2011-08-11 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Hello Andreas, Le dimanche 31 juillet 2011 à 10:04 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : - Sylvestre, did you by chance saved the gobby file because gobby.debian.net was switched off I guess you saw that since then: http://debblog.philkern.de/2011/08/debconf11-gobby-documents.html As attachement,

Licsensing scientific data

2011-07-31 Thread Andreas Tille
[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.