Genome Report Ownership Policy
From Genomic Standards Consortium
The following comments are points for discussion and do not form an official policy
The Genome Catalogue and genome reports have been implemented to provide a richer set of information on genomes to the scientific community.
No copyright is assumed by the Genomic Standards Consortium for the contents of the Genome Catalogue, including genome reports.
The following section is the output of discussions held at the EBI on 10th December 2007 with Peter Sterk, Renzo Kottmann and Tanya Gray
[edit] Genome Report License
Genome reports are licensed using Common Public License Version 1.0
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.php
This is an open source license that requires attribution if the licensed data is used
[edit] Genome Report Ownership
Version 1
- Curator can be anybody.
- The person who claims it is the only person able to edit the report.
- If the original author (published the genome) wants to own the report then they are able to do so, and ownership will be transferred
- If someone wants to add something to report they will need to contact report author (even if author is not the genome author) to agree
Version 2
- Curator can be anybody at anytime
- There is not the one author, unless the original author claims it
- multiple authors for a given report
- versioning system required
Renzo and Peter – preference for version 2
There is a requirement for review board with version 2 to revert changes to reports.
same requirement for a review board with adding new terms
