Jakob wrote:

Hi,

In the current issue of Nature there are some editorials on the free flow of data where wikis and weblogs are mentioned. Things are moving in the scientific community but I'm afraid they'll choose a non-commercial license

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7068/full/438531a.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7068/full/438548a.html

Interesting fact: The Human Genome Project considered using an open-source style licence for the gene sequences, but ultimately rejected it in favour of public domain.

Sir John Sulston, former head of the Sanger Centre which was one of the major locations where the sequencing took place, talks about this in his autobiography "The Common Thread" and contains a good argument why it's better (for everyone) for scientific data to be in the public domain rather than copyrighted in any way.

Chris