On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:15 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
... > Hi, > ... > > http://oeis.org/wiki/The_OEIS_End-User_License_Agreement > > <rant> > I think this is a very, very sad direction for OEIS to have gone in, > with Sloane passing it off under such terms. It's really a shame. > Wikipedia has provided a vastly better example in how to make data > available. > > It might even be the case that the sloane_sequences file in Sage, if > it were to a grow a bit, would violate the terms. > </rant> > > I wonder if the OEIS used to be available under a different license, > or maybe Sloane just didn't worry about licenses? If it did used to > be available under different terms? > > I encourage people to read the terms here > http://oeis.org/wiki/The_OEIS_End-User_License_Agreement to make sure > I'm not misunderstanding them. And if you're the sort of person (like > me), who has contributed to OEIS, to think twice before doing so in > the future. I don't know if you are misunderstanding it but to me this seems like a really silly license for the following reasons: (a) how can Sloane or "the OEIS Foundation" own the copyright to data which was freely contributed by others? (b) Even if he does own copyright (and I'm not saying he does), since it is free data and no one makes any money from it, if someone did redistribute the data which is already freely available, how can he prove that any damage occurred? In the US unoriginal data (such as in phone books) cannot be copyrighted. I'm not saying that the OIES is 100% unoriginal but my guess is that over 5% of it is unoriginal data (eg, wel-known sequences, such as the Fibonacci sequence). Anyway, that's my 2 cents. > > -- William > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
