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Re: Date licenses



    What is the adequate licence for data, allowing the data to be accessible by 
    all, used in all circumstances, and garanties the fact that all "redived 
    datas" are to be accessible in the very same way ? 

You can use the GPL--it will work for anything as long as you
can figure out what "source code" refers to.  The definition
of "source code" in the GPL is actually quite general, so you
can probably get it to fit almost any sort of data.

This is assuming that there is a copyright on the database.  That is
not true for all databases.  For instance, the data base of phone
subscribers and their phone numbers is not copyrightable in the US.
If the database is not copyrightable, no such license can be used
on it.



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