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Re: Assigning CC-BY-4.0 licence to CIF dictionaries

I'm in favour of CC-BY but also relaxed about CC0.
(I'm on the Open Definition Committee (https://opendefinition.org/) and have also served with Science/Creative Commons. )
* Any licence with either NC or ND causes huge, irresolvable  problems
* licences are ultimately legal documents and matters of disagreement are resolved by a judge or court.
* The biosciences (e.g. sequence databases) have often relied on community norms rather than legal licences.

CIF dictionaries are computable objects so can be re-used in many ways so I think it's worth emphasizing they should be respected and I think CC-BY works in practice.

Peter

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"I always retain copyright in my papers, and nothing in any contract I sign with any publisher will override that fact. You should do the same".

Peter Murray-Rust
Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-336432
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