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<DIV>David is right. </DIV>
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<DIV>Jonas makes a valuable point, of sorts. The only value for
registering a copyright, of any kind, of this collective public domain
database is to protect the good name of this mailing list, tz. </DIV>
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<DIV>Other than that, there's little cause for "must be"'s (-es(?))
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<DIV>The potential complexity of this registration may be <EM>the</EM>
spoiler.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cliff Hancuff</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 4/29/2009 2:30:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jonas@mailup.net writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>The data
must be made available under a public domain license. Data must<BR>be placed
into the public domain to be unconstrained by copyright and to<BR>be available
for both non-commercial and commercial usage. Science<BR>Commons [1]
recommends the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication<BR>and License [2]
or the Creative Commons CC0 license [3].<BR><BR>You must read the first link
to understand how important is use a public<BR>domain license for
data.<BR><BR><BR>[1]
http://sciencecommons.org/resources/faq/database-protocol/<BR>[2]
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/<BR>[3]
http://creativecommons.org/license/zero/<BR><BR>On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:14
+0200, "Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven"<BR><asmodai@in-nomine.org>
wrote:<BR>> -On [20090429 01:28], Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]<BR>>
(olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov) wrote:<BR>> >There's no license.<BR>>
<BR>> That might actually cause problems in Germany, I think.<BR><BR>--
<BR>http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and<BR>
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