[sac-board] Re: Fw: copyrighted or public domain of double star data base

But if it's not considered copyrighted as an original entity as most
material is on the web, then it amounts to nothing more than a "Gentlemen's
Agreement". We can only ask in either case. They can credit it or they can
use it how they want and don't HAVE to do anything if they don't want to
unless they're a nice guy.

Jack

> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 23:07:03 -0700, Jack Jones wrote:
>
> > The text descriptions are in fact valuable and original. We pretty much
do
> > "let anyone do whatever they want with" the databases but ask they give
an
> > acknowledgement of the Club as the source.
>
> But Steve's statement that the databases are in the public domain means
> they don't have to acknowledge were the data came from.
>
> Of course any software using data without providing the data's pedigree
> would have its results considered unreliable.
>
> -Paul
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