[open-bibliography] OCLC's license for FAST

[Rob Styles]

Somebody harvest it and republish please. The ODC-By license allows for
this.

rob

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:

> Someone I know wrote to OCLC to get a copy of FAST and received this reply:
>
> "Currently, complete dumps of the FAST file are not available under an
> ODC-By license.  OCLC does make dumps available on a case-by-case basis
> under a research-use license.  To apply, please contact Eric Childress
> (childree at oclc.org)."
>
> So, the file is NOT available under ODC-By, which makes me wonder what the
> ODC-By relates to -- individual records? ODC-By says:
>
> "...this license only governs the rights over the Database, and not the
> contents of the Database individually."
>
> " The rights granted cover, for example:
>
> a. Extraction and Re-utilisation of the whole or a Substantial part of the
> Contents;"
>
> If this is added to the OKFN data list, let's make clear that the database
> is not available, only the linked data service and its output (is that
> right?).
>
> kc
>
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