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The purpose of publishing public scientific data and collections of data, whether in the form of a paper, a patent, data publication, or deposition to a database, is to enable re-use and re-purposing of that data. Non-commercial terms prevent this in an unpredictable and unhelpful way. Share-alike and copyleft provisions have the potential to do the same under some circumstances.[...]“Where a decision has been taken to publish data deriving from public science research, best practice to enable the re-use and re-purposing of that data, is to place it explicitly in the public domain via {one of a small set of protocols e.g. cc0 or PDDL}.”The advantage of this statement is that it focuses purely on what should be done once a decision to publish has been made, leaving the issue of what should be published to a separate policy statement. http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/2009/05/15/a-breakthrough-on-data-licensing-for-public-scienceSee alsohttp://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/05/articulating-principles-for-open-data.htmlhttp://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=1939I agree with the new statement.