Le Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:53:46 +0200,
Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 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
what about (from [1]):
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Maybe we should advertise this on the wiki once we agreed on the
formulatin of the license.
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