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Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

Posted Aug 29, 2012 7:52 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org) by Cyberax
Parent article: Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

I'm not aware of any jurisdictions that forbid citations (but IANAL, etc), but re-using a graph wouldn't be considered citation in the fields I'm familiar with.


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Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

Posted Aug 29, 2012 16:20 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Citing a graph from a paper is fine in my field (biotechnology), if this graph is a subject for further analysis, for example.

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