Frontiers licenses

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Frontiers recently switched from CC BY-NC to CC BY as their default license. However, the few files that are labeled as being CC BY normally end up recognized as "Unknown, possibly non-free license".

Examples:
10.3389/fphys.2012.00293
10.3389/fphys.2012.00414
10.3389/fmicb.2012.00338

More via https://www.google.com/search?q=10.3389+video&sugexp=chrome,mod=16&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=10.3389+%22supplemental+data%22+(movie+OR+video)+%22creative+commons+attribution+license%22 .

[erlehmann]

Unfortunately, Frontiers does not distinguish its licensing via use of the <license> element href attribute:

        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement">
          <license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the <uri xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</uri>, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc.</license-p>
        </license>

[erlehmann]

So, should OAMI look at <license-p> elements when <license> elements give a proprietary license?

[Daniel-Mietchen]

probably yes.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Frontiers articles have worked fine for a while now - closing.