Dataset licenses need attention

[durack1]

On 11/25/19, 11:44 PM, "Martina Stockhause" wrote:
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    Meanwhile, I have spot-checked the licenses in the NetCDF headers and 
    have found some issues:
    
    * Some centers did not change the license template:
    ** some have a license with the star place holder or with brackets, e.g.
    Creative Commons Attribution-[*]ShareAlike 4.0 or
    Creative Commons Attribution-[NonCommercial-]ShareAlike 4.0
    ** ECMWF has used their own British Crown license (The license for 
    ECMWF's CMIP6 data is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)    
    ** some acknowledge PCMDI as creator of the data e.g. CAS or INM for CMIP6
    
    * input4MIPs has additionally the issues:
    
    ** two centers have not specified a license:  IACETH, NCAS
    
    As the license is part of the data header, we cannot do much about it 
    for CMIP6. For CMIP7 it would be better to collect license information 
    together with the registration and enable CMOR to write the registered 
    license properly into the data header.
    
    Cheers,
    Martina

@MartinaSt

[MartinaSt]

@durack1 We should also harmonize the source_id content for input4MIPs with that of CMIP6 as much as possible. For the new content discussed for CMIP6 (WCRP-CMIP/CMIP6_CVs#1050), there are:

	CMIP6	input4MIPs	comment
contact	exceptions_contact	contact	MS: different formatting of provided email addresses
url	source-specific_info	further_info_url	MS: Is the content comparable? I will add one url per model in the database of the citation service.
history	history	-
rights_identifier	rights_identifier	-
rights	rights	-
rights_info	rights_info	-

[durack1]

@MartinaSt agreed, add this to the to-do list of cleanups for input4MIPs. Having said this, it may require some discussion with the dataset providers, as unlike with CMIP6 discussion of licenses, and default license templates were not made available to the dataset providers for them to consider