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

 

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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