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provide explicit licensing details for files under input_data #15
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We are in contact with GrabCAD/BrainWeb wrt publishing the data under AGPLv3. Just in case it will not work out: can we strip the files out of distribution, but download them from our webserver during building with cmake? |
They will likely ask you to keep their original licensing. As long as it is compatible with the terms of AGPL-3, you guys are fine. Their licensing terms would need to be properly acknowledged in the
In case the files aren't suitable for distribution within your project due to licensing, they will need to be stripped out from your Github repository indeed. You may decide to provide an (optional) download step as part of your CMake. As far as packaging is concerned on the other hand, we cannot download these additional resources as part of the build process. Packages are built inside a chroot environment with no ability to download remote resources from the internet. Consequently, please make sure that the ASL library can still be built and some of its test suite can be run, if these files are not available. |
A legal expert is needed to properly determine whether their terms are compatible with AGPL-3, but as you have pointed out there are restriction on "redistribution and commercial usage" which seem to be incompatible.
We have no problem to write with big letters - the files belong to GrabCAD and attach their complete license, but as far as I understand it is not enough for Debian. Correct? Wrt BrainWeb the things seem to be less complicated, since its us who generated the file, we just used their tool. I think that we are the owners, the same as an image generated by GIMP doesn't belong to GIMP copyright holders, but to the person who created it. |
Probably.
Anything that does not follow our guidelines has to be stripped off indeed. From my first read at the GrabCAD licensing, it does not look DFSG compliant.
Better be safe than sorry. It might be worth asking whether some kind of acknowledgement is required (publication, funding body...). |
Can this be closed? |
Please provide explicit licensing terms for the data, that means:
The bottom line is that I should be able to tell, from the |
Improved. |
all good, fixed since f0aac0c |
Still on the licensing topic, you guys mention in the
COPYRIGHT.md
.This information tells me where the files were obtained, not witch licensing terms these files are in. Please consider giving a short summary of the licensing for both the GrabCAD and BrainWeb data, since both are not straightforward to find.
On my brief reading of the GrabCAD terms of service, I felt that the licensing was very restrictive with regards to redistribution and commercial usage, which does not look compatible with the terms of the
AGPL-3
?If licensing information cannot be determined accurately, then I will have to strip these data off prior to packaging.
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