[Textbook-l] RE: different open content licenses

[Daniel Mayer]

Toby wrote:
>The periodic table isn't covered by copyright anyway.
>Most of our [[en:List of ...]] articles are similarly free;
>there is no copyright on information, only creative work.
>(IANAL, and it'd be interesting to ask one just how far that goes.)

The table itself, no. But the particular table in Wikipedia has different 
colors for the series, a particular selection of which series to have, and 
different colors for the different states of each element - all that is 
creative work and is under copyright. 

And a chemistry textbook without its own periodic table is very strange - just 
copy the darn thing Karl. :)

--mav