Comments on: Open Knowledge; London meeting and later http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=1088 A Scientist and the Web Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:48:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: ChemSpider Blog » Blog Archive » ChemSpider Removes Creative Commons Licenses http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=1088&cpage=1#comment-229244 ChemSpider Blog » Blog Archive » ChemSpider Removes Creative Commons Licenses Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:59:00 +0000 http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=1088#comment-229244 [...] We thought we were doing the best thing for the community and, some agreed. However, the leaking of an internal memo from a Creative Commons discussion highlighted that our adoption of CC licenses for data was not necessarily appropriate. Over teh [...] [...] We thought we were doing the best thing for the community and, some agreed. However, the leaking of an internal memo from a Creative Commons discussion highlighted that our adoption of CC licenses for data was not necessarily appropriate. Over teh [...]

]]> By: Plausible Accuracy » Blog Archive » Data should be public domain, and more esoteric blog-based ‘rasslin’ http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=1088&cpage=1#comment-197736 Plausible Accuracy » Blog Archive » Data should be public domain, and more esoteric blog-based ‘rasslin’ Mon, 12 May 2008 14:39:50 +0000 http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=1088#comment-197736 [...] getting angry at one another.  It seems that Peter Murray Rust published (somewhat erroneously) a conversation between himself and John Wilbanks.  This conversation was taken somewhat out of context by the folks over at Chemspider, and the [...] [...] getting angry at one another.  It seems that Peter Murray Rust published (somewhat erroneously) a conversation between himself and John Wilbanks.  This conversation was taken somewhat out of context by the folks over at Chemspider, and the [...]

]]> By: Egon Willighagen http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=1088&cpage=1#comment-195874 Egon Willighagen Sat, 10 May 2008 07:12:12 +0000 http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=1088#comment-195874 Peter, I think we applaud the choice for ChemSpider's choice of license too, because we are happy about people using the Academic license (in parallel to the BY clause), or the GPL (in parallel to the GPL). I do not see a fundamental reason why we should treat data different from other kinds of knowledge, viz. algorithms. I have written things up in my blog in a bit more detail: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2008/05/does-chemspider-really-violate-open.html I understand John wish to have more freedom when combining data sources, but that's not different from the viral aspect of the GPL. It's just caused by John's desire to not use the CC-BY-SA himself, I think. License incompatibilities are not new, and it should not make us less happy about the statement of ChemSpider towards Open Data. Peter, I think we applaud the choice for ChemSpider’s choice of license too, because we are happy about people using the Academic license (in parallel to the BY clause), or the GPL (in parallel to the GPL). I do not see a fundamental reason why we should treat data different from other kinds of knowledge, viz. algorithms.

I have written things up in my blog in a bit more detail:

http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2008/05/does-chemspider-really-violate-open.html

I understand John wish to have more freedom when combining data sources, but that’s not different from the viral aspect of the GPL. It’s just caused by John’s desire to not use the CC-BY-SA himself, I think. License incompatibilities are not new, and it should not make us less happy about the statement of ChemSpider towards Open Data.

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