On Friday, February 29, 2008, at 11:13AM, "Jonathan Stickel"
<address@hidden> wrote:
I have written some data smoothing code that borrows heavily from
code published as supplemental information in Analytical Chemistry,
an ACS journal. I would like to submit my code to Octave (as part
of a package in octave-forge). Here is what the ACS website says
about the copyright:
"Electronic Supporting Information files are available without a
subscription to ACS Web Editions. All files are copyrighted by the
American Chemical Society. Files may be downloaded for personal
use; users are not permitted to reproduce, republish, redistribute,
or resell any Supporting Information, either in whole or in part,
in either machine-readable form or any other form. For permission
to reproduce this material, contact the ACS Copyright Office by
e-mail at address@hidden or by fax at 202-776-8112."
I plan to email ACS about this, but is there a suggested way to ask
permission? My thought is to GPL my code submission and cite the
publication. Do you think ACS will allow this, or should I ask
for something else?
Thanks, Jonathan
Jonathan,
I'm intrigued.
I occasionally run into claims of copyright issues with regards to
published algorithms. Can you post a reference to the paper in
question, so that I may take a look?
Thanks Ben