Re: pdb files license

[lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>]

2011/9/26 Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel <frederic-emmanuel.picca@synchrotron-soleil.fr>

Hello, I'm currently packaging a package which contain pdb files.

so I asked the upstream the licences of a few included pdb files, he
sent to me a link took from a mailling list of the database the
files are originating from [1][2]. The follow up is interesting.

the full agreement for instituts contributing to the database is here [2].

So the question is:

is it possible for Debian to distribut that kind of files ?

It seems to me that it should be possible to distribute the files, but
that it is not allow to introduce the new modifyed files into the
original database.

[1] https://lists.sdsc.edu/pipermail/pdb-l/2007-August/004049.html
[2] https://lists.sdsc.edu/pipermail/pdb-l/2007-August/004051.html
[3] http://www.wwpdb.org/wwpdb_charter.html

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Here I might be wrong. But I know someone who handled PDBs before. So I learned little.

PDB is the abbreviation of the Protein Data Bank. 

PDB files just a file, you can touch a.pdb or b.pdb.

But for the PDB ID which was the identity from the Protein Data Bank (might not correct), 
different ID regards different protein structure and the structure information was gained from different lab or group. The bank gathered those information together.
so for certain pdb file such as 1RCT.pdb, when people used it, people won't cite the Protein Data Bank, they will cite the group who found or predict it.

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lina