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biopragmatics / biomappings

🗺️ Community curated and predicted equivalences and related mappings between named biological entities that are not available from primary sources.
https://biopragmatics.github.io/biomappings/
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Sure about CC0? Are labels CC0? - possible license compatibility issues #153

Open lubianat opened 12 months ago

lubianat commented 12 months ago

e.g. on https://raw.githubusercontent.com/biopragmatics/biomappings/master/src/biomappings/resources/mappings.tsv we have this:

orcid:0000-0003-4423-4370
wikipathways WP999 TCA Cycle speciesSpecific go GO:0006099 tricarboxylic acid cycle semapv:ManualMappingCuration orcid:0000-0003-4423-4370

It is quite unclear which parts of GO (and other CC-BY ontologies) can be turned into CC0 and which ones cannot (a kind of license stacking issue).

This is a major issue w.r.t. importing ontologies into Wikidata. Some would say that CC-BY is not compatible with CC0.

Maybe we need some kind of new BioOntology Open License. CC-BY on ontologies creates nightmares, but most resources are afraid of going CC0 (also because of legacy licensing issues).

cthoyt commented 12 months ago

That's a good point. I hope that we're in the situation where the name is factual knowledge, or this is can fall under "fair use" (though I don't know the legal definition for that)

If someone is upset we are doing this then i guess we can take the labels out

lubianat commented 12 months ago

I am upset because I am not confident enough to do the same on Wikidata :)

fair use is quite broad in definition; maybe @andrawaag can add something to the discussion