Actually it's probably easier to get this data disseminated in the corporate world if there is a permissive license attached to it as opposed to none at all.

In the corporate world, the lawyers (here protecting the assets of the shareholders) will want to have proof positive that corporation X has the rights to distribute data or code Y and the corporation will not be subject to claims. So far, the easiest way to accomplish this is to explicitly have terms associated with work.

I've seen this in about every company, big and small, that I have dealt with so I would not be surprised it's a widespread issue. YMMV

(IANAL so of course, the above is a personal opinion on my part. )

CHancuff@aol.com wrote:
David is right. 
 
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. 
 
Other than that, there's little cause for "must be"'s (-es(?)) 
 
The potential complexity of this registration may be the spoiler.
 
Cliff Hancuff
 
In a message dated 4/29/2009 2:30:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jonas@mailup.net writes:
The data must be made available under a public domain license. Data must
be placed into the public domain to be unconstrained by copyright and to
be available for both non-commercial and commercial usage. Science
Commons [1] recommends the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication
and License [2] or the Creative Commons CC0 license [3].

You must read the first link to understand how important is use a public
domain license for data.


[1] http://sciencecommons.org/resources/faq/database-protocol/
[2] http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/
[3] http://creativecommons.org/license/zero/

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:14 +0200, "Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven"
<asmodai@in-nomine.org> wrote:
> -On [20090429 01:28], Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]
> (olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov) wrote:
> >There's no license.
>
> That might actually cause problems in Germany, I think.

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