Re: pdb files license

[Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen@gmail.com>]

2011/9/26 Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel
<frederic-emmanuel.picca@synchrotron-soleil.fr>:
> so for you the .pdb files are DFSGfree ?

There have been PDB-files from the Protein Data Bank in the Debian
archive since at least 1998 (rasmol source package), so including them
should not be a problem in practice.

In spite of that, the copyright and licensing of these files is not
clear to me either. Currently rasmol's DEP5 copyright file lists them
to be under GPL, which is certainly not the case. If you come up with
a generic copyright file snippet for files from the PDB, let me know.

Best,

Teemu