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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Natalie,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">thank you for the inquiry and sorry
that it took me so long to respond.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-06-01 19:43, Clines, Natalie
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am looking for the terms of licensing. Is
this website CC by 0?
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<p>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:</p>
<p>"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."<br>
<br>
"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."<br>
<br>
"There is no restriction to data access, which can be reused in
any further software and databases. All data are placed in the
public<br>
domain."</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>May I kindly ask you (if this is not confidential) what are your
intended uses of the ROD?</p>
<p>Sincerely yours,<br>
Saulius<br>
</p>
<p>Ref.:</p>
<p>[1] <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">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.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal;
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widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration: none;">
<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Raman
Open Database: first interconnected Raman–X-ray diffraction
open-access resource for material identification.<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br
style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
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normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
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<em style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: sans-serif; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Journal
of Applied Crystallography,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em><span
style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;
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style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: sans-serif; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">International
Union of Crystallography (IUCr),<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em><span
style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;
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normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
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style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">2019</b><i
style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: sans-serif; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">, 52</i><span
style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;
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text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto;
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text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">,
618-625 DOI: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1107/s1600576719004229">https://doi.org/10.1107/s1600576719004229</a></span></p>
<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">[2]
COD AB. The COD Web site (2023), license link "License"
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/</a>). URL:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.crystallography.net/cod/">http://www.crystallography.net/cod/</a>, accessed
2023-06-14T08:41+03:00.<br>
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Dr. Saulius Gražulis
Vilnius University Institute of Biotechnology, Saulėtekio al. 7
LT-10257 Vilnius, Lietuva (Lithuania)
fax: (+370-5)-2234367 / phone (office): (+370-5)-2234353
mobile: (+370-684)-49802, (+370-614)-36366
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