7e6e9eab801c5347bf2399df9708543289bd3ba2 max Wed Jun 28 06:03:13 2023 -0700 clarified license once more, refs #31575 diff --git src/hg/htdocs/license/index.html src/hg/htdocs/license/index.html index 30a0dd48..5460088 100755 --- src/hg/htdocs/license/index.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/license/index.html @@ -1,22 +1,30 @@ +

Website: No license or permission is needed to use the website, for academic, commercial or any other use

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This is a public website. There is no license or permission needed to use +the website and any data on it. You can also load your own data onto our +website and look at it there, and use track hubs or custom tracks to configure +how it is displayed, as a commercial or non-commercial or any other entity. +

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Graphics: No permission is needed to reproduce a graphic produced by the Genome Browser

Permission is granted for reuse of all graphics produced by the UCSC Genome Browser website. There is no need to contact us to get permission. If your publisher, notably Elsevier, insists on getting approval, please direct them to this webpage. However, when you use the UCSC Genome Browser in your work, please cite one of our publications.


Data: No license is needed for the data files and database tables used by the Genome Browser

As far as the UCSC Genome Browser group is concerned, the raw table data and binary files used to create the graphics by the browser is freely available for both public and commercial use. This applies to data that is downloaded as files via http, https, ftp or rsync, and equally when data is accessed through the public MySQL server or via the web API. The only exception are the liftOver chain files,