First of all, I'm not a lawyer, so the following are just best guesses of someone on the internet. Secondly, I know that this is an important project for the community and I want to make it clear that I'm not against projects to make the world suck less.
With that out of the way, I'm mildly perplexed at the legal status of this repository. The Github reports the project as being under the MIT license. I'm sure this means the programming language code, to which I have nothing to say. However most people do not have a deep understanding of legal issues and to them the entire project is covered by MIT license. This includes the CSV files under the many subfolders of the measurements folder.
Setting aside whether or not MIT license can be applied to them, which may or may not be an entire legal rabbit hole unto itself, the much more pressing issue is that it would seem to me that these files were taking from various publications and other sources, which is troubling for two reasons:
Due to the LICENSE file containing Copyright (c) 2018-2022 Jaakko Pasanen these files might be misconstrued as being covered by that copyright, when in fact they either have their original copyright or none at all (I'm not a lawyer and the copyright status of scientific data is not known to me). Either way they should probably be correctly cited according to academic standards, if nothing else.
Randomly examining name_index.tsv files I quickly found at least one with only dropbox URLs for source. To me this raises not so much eyebrows as the hair on the back of the neck, because that is totally not an acceptable citation or sufficient identification of the source. As such it's unclear to me if those measurement sets would even qualify as academic publications that deserve a citation rather than something which may never have been properly published in the first place and for which I can only suggest talking to a lawyer specializing in copyright or science before re-publishing. Not least because, if there's no other copyright or proper citation, it might fall under the copyright statement in the LICENSE file, which itself could be a legal problem, if real lawyers came looking.
First of all, I'm not a lawyer, so the following are just best guesses of someone on the internet. Secondly, I know that this is an important project for the community and I want to make it clear that I'm not against projects to make the world suck less.
With that out of the way, I'm mildly perplexed at the legal status of this repository. The Github reports the project as being under the MIT license. I'm sure this means the programming language code, to which I have nothing to say. However most people do not have a deep understanding of legal issues and to them the entire project is covered by MIT license. This includes the CSV files under the many subfolders of the measurements folder.
Setting aside whether or not MIT license can be applied to them, which may or may not be an entire legal rabbit hole unto itself, the much more pressing issue is that it would seem to me that these files were taking from various publications and other sources, which is troubling for two reasons:
Copyright (c) 2018-2022 Jaakko Pasanenthese files might be misconstrued as being covered by that copyright, when in fact they either have their original copyright or none at all (I'm not a lawyer and the copyright status of scientific data is not known to me). Either way they should probably be correctly cited according to academic standards, if nothing else.All the best, I mainly created this issue to link it back to an EasyEffects' issue on providing AutoEq like feature but I did not think it was appropriate to post my rambling there.