[SciPy-dev] Is "Creative Commons: Attribution" an acceptable license for datasets included in scipy ?

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 11:38:18 EST 2010


On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:34,  <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Bruce Southey <bsouthey at gmail.com> wrote:

>> The answer really depends on what country, what the data is ('facts' are
>> not copyrightable), how (and when) it was collected and who  collected it.
>
> Do we need a disclaimer, don't look at the data if you are in Australia?

No, we would simply not distribute such data at all since those terms
are inconsistent with our licensing policy.

-- 
Robert Kern

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enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
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