Daniel Karrenberg said:
If you are concerned about the cost, you could place a copyright on the collected data so that re-use for RIPE NCC members does not incur an additional charge, and perhaps allow academic re-use by non-RIPE NCC members to likewise be without fee, but for-profit non-RIPE NCC members would be required to contact you first and arrange to pay a fee if they wanted to reuse the data or the results.
The whole point is that a detaled analysis of the data published for all to see. I cannot see how to apply copyright in this environment.
Quite easily. Something like this: This data is the copyright of RIPE NCC. A non-exclusive licence is granted to RIPE NCC members for their internal use. A non-exclusive licence is granted for use by any person for non-commercial purposes. In both cases there is no charge for use of the data but it must not be re-published without separate agreement. This does not prevent publication of any other work done making use of this data but not including it. All other rights are reserved. [IANAL, but I understand the principles involved. A Dutch lawyer can no doubt make it formally correct.] -- Clive D.W. Feather | Work: <clive@demon.net> | Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 Internet Expert | Home: <clive@davros.org> | *** NOTE CHANGE *** Demon Internet | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Fax: +44 870 051 9937 Thus plc | | Mobile: +44 7973 377646