Re: JPL Planetary Ephemeris DE405

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Roberto <roberto@zenvoid.org> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:41:37PM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote:
>> That is generally not true for scientific databases: When the entries
>> are selected by objective criteria (which is the common case for such
>> databases), the database is not copyrightable.
>
> That's open to the interpretation of the judges. Search for previous
> cases and you'll be surprised. A company that I've worked for was one of
> such victims.

Sure; law is always open to be interpreted by the court. This is
generally true and not specific to this case.

Best regards

Ole