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Hi Tomas,

Generally speaking, the models hosted on the Physiome Model Repository are licensed
under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>. For the particular workspace
that you've linked, it has an exposure (navigable via the `Latest Exposure` button
in that page) and it leads to the top level exposure container, and from there
there is a link to the exposure view of the workspace, where the license for the
work is visible. As for why this license was picked (instead of the specific GNU
ones) was to allow maximum reach with attribution, but the exact reasoning was
probably recorded in discussions many, many years ago.

The workspace view being shown is a general file listing and are managed by
collaborator(s) that may be working on the model, though it is up to them to
add whatever files they deem necessary (including the license file) to this
workspace that underlies the exposure presentation layer for the repository
itself.

If you'd like to publish a modified version of the model to the repository,
please create an account, create a fork of that workspace, and push your
changes to that fork to get the changes into your fork as a start using Git.
The full details of this whole process may be found in the documentation,
which is linked via the top tool bar.

Regards,
Tommy.

On 24/10/23 23:40, Tomas Stary wrote:

Hello,

I would like to publish a modified version of a model from the CellML
repository [1].

I wanted to make sure, that I have the necessary permission to do that
and find out what are the conditions. However, the licensing information
of the published files is missing, which could mean that all the
copyrights may be reserved by the copyright holders [2],[3].

I wonder if the general licensing information is specified in any other
place I might have failed to find?

I have also noticed that this problem is not specific for the model [1],
but might be relevant to other CellML repositories as well. Would it be
possible for you to include the licensing information into the
repositories, perhaps in the form of LICENSE file with the terms?

I believe that some kind of copyleft license [4] would work best to keep
the project as open as possible.

Best regards,

Tomas

[1] https://models.physiomeproject.org/workspace/486

[2] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NoLicense

[3] https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/

[4] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.html

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• [cellml-discussion] copyrights and licensing issues, Tomas Stary, 10/24/2023
  • Re: [cellml-discussion] copyrights and licensing issues, Tommy Yu, 10/25/2023
    • Re: [cellml-discussion] copyrights and licensing issues, David Nickerson, 10/25/2023
      • Re: [cellml-discussion] copyrights and licensing issues, Matthias König, 10/25/2023
        • Re: [cellml-discussion] copyrights and licensing issues, David Nickerson, 10/25/2023

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