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[FYI] HGP und GPL
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- Subject: [FYI] HGP und GPL
- From: "Ralf Stephan" <ralf@ark.in-berlin.de>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:23:08 +0200
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Muster bilden sich...
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v404/n6780/full/404809a0_r.html
Nature 20 April 2000
Correspondence
Nature 404, 809 (2000) © Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
Open-source work even more vital to genome project than to software
Sir - We note with dismay and alarm the controversy concerning access,
distribution and patenting of the human genome sequence (Nature 404,
317; 2000 & Nature 404, 324; 2000). We wish to point out some
analogies between the human genome sequencing efforts and
'open-source' software development, which have implications for the
data-release policy of the public sequencing effort.
...
Unfortunately, the public genome-sequencing centres have not
distributed their 'source code' under a similar GPL licence in the
past. This has now allowed a commercial entity to incorporate these
data into a closed product with the apparent aim of market domination.
...
ralf
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