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Re: pdb files license



Le Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:06:10 +0200,
Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel <frederic-emmanuel.picca@synchrotron-soleil.Fr> a écrit :

> I think this is what you want.
> 
> Data files contained in the PDB archive (ftp://ftp.wwpdb.org) are free of
> all copyright restrictions and made fully and freely available for both
> non-commercial and commercial use. Users of the data should attribute the
> original authors of that structural data.
> 
> http://www.pdb.org/pdb/static.do?p=general_information/about_pdb/policies_references.html  

so what is the right DEP5 entry for the copyright in that case.

Files: blabla.pdb
Copyright: ????


> Advisory for the Use of the PDB Archive
> 
> By using the materials available in this archive, the user agrees to
> abide by the following conditions:
> 
>     The archival data files in the PDB archive are made freely
> available to all users. Data files within the archive may be
> redistributed in original form without restriction. Redistribution of
> modified data files using the same file name as is on the FTP server is
> prohibited. The rules for file names are detailed at
> http://www.wwpdb.org/wwpdb_charter.html.


I am a little bit concern by this redistribution restriction.
It seems that redistribuing unmodified file is allow but if you modify
a file it is not allow to redistribut it with the same name on the FTP
server.

So DFSGFree or not ?

See you

Frederic

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