Hi!
Can I assume the brief waiver by the UniProt PI to not
be sufficient for
allowing even the federated use in WikiData of
sparql.uniprot.org. If
that assumption is correct I will restart the long UniProt internal
struggle to get that fixed.
Frankly, I am not sure what to do with this. The ND part is kind of
concerning, and I'm not a lawyer so I am not even sure I understand it
properly. While it looks like the "BY" part can be satisfied with
https://query.wikidata.org/copyright.html type page, the ND part still
remains and I'm not sure how to deal with it. The letter answer is great
and I am thankful for it, but what I am concerned about is how to make
it the matter of record - in 5 years, maybe both myself and person who
wrote this letter would forget about it, and the system still needs to
be maintained. So if there were some statement on official UniProt docs
that says this case is OK (within some kind of FAQ probably? Maybe
http://www.uniprot.org/help/license ) or somehow a way to make an
official permission (some kind of letter to legal(a)wikimedia.org? I don't
know, I don't have much experience with this) that would make it much
easier.
--
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org