To reinforce: Andrew is completely correct. The CC license applies only to
the documentation. The code is all BSD.
-greg
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:42 AM Roman Bolzern <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Dear Andrew,
>
> My bad, excuse me fooling around.
>
> Thanks for the clarification. I wanted to really make sure if also the
> cartridge can be used for commercial purposes. I also reached the same
> conclusions, but didn't know about the CC licenses for documentation hint.
>
> Thanks for taking your time!
>
> Best regards,
> Roman
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Andrew Dalke <[email protected]>
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. August 2018 09:47
> An: Roman Bolzern <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: [Rdkit-discuss] cartridge license?
>
> On Aug 23, 2018, at 07:18, Roman Bolzern <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Dear RDKittens,
>
> I would prefer to not be called a 'kitten'.
>
> > https://www.rdkit.org/docs/Cartridge.html#license, and at the bottom it
> says “This work is licensed under the Creative Commons
> Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License”,
> ...
> > Is “this work” only the code in this docs page? Or what does this mean
> for a business use case? What exactly do we have to share, what not?
>
> Before that sentence is the line "This document is copyright ..." At the
> top of the page it says: "This document is a tutorial and reference guide
> for the RDKit PostgreSQL cartridge." I regard that as saying that "this
> work" is a synonym for 'this document' and meant to refer to the tutorial
> and reference guide document.
>
> To verify that, I looked at the source code, available online at
> https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit/tree/master/Code/PgSQL/rdkit . The files
> all appear to have the standard BSD license, and they do not mention the CC
> license.
>
> The FAQ at https://creativecommons.org/faq/ suggests "While we recommend
> against using a CC license on software itself, CC licenses may be used for
> software documentation, as well as for separate artistic elements such as
> game art or music." This supports the hypothesis that the
> Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License is only meant to apply to the
> documentation.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
> [email protected]
>
>
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