Re: Non-copyrightable work with non-free license.
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 11:00:11PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>
> Nevertheless, facts such as protein sequences are not copyrightable. This is
> somewhat confirmed by the UniProt consortium itself on their website
> (http://www.uniprot.org/help/license), and my conclusion is that, in isolation
> from the rest of the UniProt database, the records in the test suites of
> BioPerl and EMBOSS are not copyrightable.
Some countries have something like database rights, and it's my
understanding that it can cover things that aren't otherwise
copyrightable.
Kurt
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