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

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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