On Monday, April 02, 2012 06:54:32 PM Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 11:00:11PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Nevertheless, facts such as protein sequences are not copyrightable. > > This is somewhat confirmed by the UniProt consortium itself on their > > website (http://www.uniprot.org/help/license), and my conclusion is > > that, in isolation from the rest of the UniProt database, the records > > in the test suites of BioPerl and EMBOSS are not copyrightable. > > Some countries have something like database rights, and it's my > understanding that it can cover things that aren't otherwise > copyrightable.
In the US (AIUI, IANAL, etc.) structure and arrangement are copyrightable, but that doesn't mean that any non-copyrightable material included in that structure and arrangement is suddenly subject to copyright (See Groklaw's coverage of Oracle v Google for discussion of this). Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1711999.E1grmiD8pn@scott-latitude-e6320
