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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases, provided by JHU CSSE
https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/
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License of CSSE data? #2868

Closed mhawas84 closed 4 years ago

mhawas84 commented 4 years ago

Hello, what is the license of this data in order to use it in modelling and forecasting the infections numbers as part of scientific research ? In other words, which license should i use and attach to the generated data, which complies with CSSE and JHU? CC BY 4.0 or CC BY NC 3.0 or both work fine?

NightDragon1 commented 4 years ago

Form a legal point of view they can not easily license the data. Reason: The sources they use have already licenses applied, mostly on country level. so they would need to create a license containing all the other licenses.

BUT, they have Terms of use, which can be found at the end of the text here: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

mhawas84 commented 4 years ago

Thank you for replying, well, as I understand from the terms of use, they have constituted the grounds of a certain type of a license that requires attribution, limited scope of usage that includes research, and non-commercial usage, this - partially or all - without - possibly or probably - making an integration with raw data licenses on country level. that is very similar or speaks out CC BY's extended notices, that does not give all permissions necessary for intended usage, ex. for usages that require the permission of other parties. Except that they have allowed some usages already.

CSSEGISandData commented 4 years ago

Hello @mhawas84 ! We are following CC BY 4.0. New terms of use was just updated yesterday. Thanks!