- From: Egon Willighagen <egon.willighagen@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:42:22 +0100
- To: Amrapali J Zaveri <amrapali.j.zaveri@gmail.com>
- Cc: open-science@lists.okfn.org, Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
Hej Amrapali, On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Amrapali J Zaveri <amrapali.j.zaveri@gmail.com> wrote: > To answer the question about the licensing/copyright issue, according to > WHO, if extracts from WHO website of publication are used for research, > private study or in a noncommercial document with limited circulation (such > as an academic thesis or dissertation), then it is allowed to do so without > seeking permission [3]. WHO encourages the use of its information materials > for information purposes i.e. when the purpose of the use is to share > objective information, whether free of charge or for sale. Only if the > material is to be used for commercial purposes, it requires a license. First of all, thanx for sending these pointers! If I read this, however, I am tempted to think that this data is really not Open. Making the whole available as RDF does not sounds to me as 'extracts' or 'limited circulation' to me... > However it does have a copyright notice: Copyright World Health Organization > (WHO), 2011. All Rights Reserved [4], so maybe this copyright could be > added. Yes. > Also, the dataset is available at this SPARQL > endpoint: http://db0.aksw.org:8895/sparql and can be downloaded from > here: http://aksw.org/Projects/Stats2RDF#h13390-5 . > Hope that is sufficient information regarding the open-ness of the dataset. > Let me know if any other information is required and suggestions are welcome > :) Have you asked permission to 'circulate' the whole of the database? I think Jenny and I will have to update the letter with respect to these new details, and I'm really happy you pointed me to [3]. Egon -- Dr E.L. Willighagen Postdoctoral Researcher Institutet för miljömedicin Karolinska Institutet Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers
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