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Re: copyright question
From: |
Ben Abbott |
Subject: |
Re: copyright question |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:54:20 -0800 |
On Friday, February 29, 2008, at 11:13AM, "Jonathan Stickel" <address@hidden>
wrote:
>I have written some data smoothing code that borrows heavily from code
>published as supplemental information in Analytical Chemistry, an ACS
>journal. I would like to submit my code to Octave (as part of a package
>in octave-forge). Here is what the ACS website says about the copyright:
>
>"Electronic Supporting Information files are available without a
>subscription to ACS Web Editions. All files are copyrighted by the
>American Chemical Society. Files may be downloaded for personal use;
>users are not permitted to reproduce, republish, redistribute, or resell
>any Supporting Information, either in whole or in part, in either
>machine-readable form or any other form. For permission to reproduce
>this material, contact the ACS Copyright Office by e-mail at
>address@hidden or by fax at 202-776-8112."
>
>I plan to email ACS about this, but is there a suggested way to ask
>permission? My thought is to GPL my code submission and cite the
>publication. Do you think ACS will allow this, or should I ask for
>something else?
>
>Thanks,
>Jonathan
>
Jonathan,
I'm intrigued.
I occasionally run into claims of copyright issues with regards to published
algorithms. Can you post a reference to the paper in question, so that I may
take a look?
Thanks
Ben