[Cod-bugs] Raman Open Database

[Saulius Gražulis]

Dear Natalie,

thank you for the inquiry and sorry that it took me so long to respond.

On 2023-06-01 19:43, Clines, Natalie wrote:
>
> I am looking for the terms of licensing. Is this website CC by 0?
>
Even though there is no license clause on the ROD web site, our paper 
[1] on the organisation of the ROD database declares the following:

"The fully open character of this novel database makes the ROD freely 
and completely usable by anybody worldwide, academics, those working in 
industry and the general public."

"All ROD data are openly available, either as individual .rod files from 
the search on-line form or as repositories. Data are released into the 
public domain."

"There is no restriction to data access, which can be reused in any 
further software and databases. All data are placed in the public
domain."

Thus, the closest legal designation of the license in EU is indeed CC0; 
this interpretation is confirmed by the recent decision of the 
Crystallography Open Database (COD) Advisory Board to make CC0 the 
official license of the COD [2]; the COD is organised along the same 
principles as the ROD, and many researchers (including myself) are in 
both AB of the COD and the ROD, thus our understanding of the terms will 
be similar.

May I kindly ask you (if this is not confidential) what are your 
intended uses of the ROD?

Sincerely yours,
Saulius

Ref.:

[1] Mendili, Y. E.; Vaitkus, A.; Merkys, A.; Gražulis, S.; Chateigner, 
D.; Mathevet, F.; Gascoin, S.; Petit, S.; Bardeau, J.-F.; Zanatta, M.; 
Secchi, M.; Mariotto, G.; Kumar, A.; Cassetta, M.; Lutterotti, L.; 
Borovin, E.; Orberger, B.; Simon, P.; Hehlen, B. & Guen, M. L.
Raman Open Database: first interconnected Raman–X-ray diffraction 
open-access resource for material identification.
/Journal of Applied Crystallography,//International Union of 
Crystallography (IUCr),/*2019*/, 52/, 618-625 DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1107/s1600576719004229

[2] COD AB. The COD Web site (2023), license link "License" 
(https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). URL: 
http://www.crystallography.net/cod/, accessed 2023-06-14T08:41+03:00.

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