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Creative Commons Licenses on Chemical Data
Creative Commons licenses on chemical data are the reuse terms attached to openly shared chemistry datasets, and this slice spans the full spectrum: commercial delivery terms 1.0 on Dryad's LCA impact data, commercial delivery terms 4.0 on FAOSTAT pesticide trade figures and the Zenodo ClassyFire labels, and non-commercial share-alike commercial delivery terms-NC-SA 4.0 on the Kaggle LogP compilation.
What is Creative Commons Licenses on Chemical Data?
A Creative Commons license tells you what you may do with a dataset before you read a single row. The three variants in this slice sit at different ends of the obligation ladder. Dryad's LCA Impact Data for Chemicals carries commercial delivery terms 1.0, a public-domain dedication - no rights reserved, no attribution required, though citing the associated ES&T article is customary. FAOSTAT Pesticides Trade & Use and the Zenodo InChIKey-deduplicated ClassyFire/ChemOnt label collection are commercial delivery terms 4.0: free including commercially, provided you credit the source in the prescribed form.
The Kaggle 426k PubChem molecules compilation for LogP prediction is the restrictive case: commercial delivery terms-NC-SA 4.0 bars commercial use and forces derivatives back under the same share-alike terms. Same catalog, same nominal openness, three different risk profiles - which is why the license string belongs in your ingestion checklist, not in a footnote.
Why does Creative Commons Licenses on Chemical Data matter when choosing a dataset?
Chemistry teams routinely merge public datasets into modeling pipelines that later become products. The license decides whether that pipeline can ship.
- NC terms cap your exit options. A model trained on the commercial delivery terms-NC-SA 4.0 LogP set cannot legally back a commercial screening tool.
- Share-alike propagates. SA obligations attach to derived databases, not just copies - merging commercial delivery terms-SA rows into a proprietary master table contaminates the whole table.
- Attribution formats differ by publisher. FAO prescribes its own citation format, and the World Bank-style metadata convention used elsewhere in the catalog expects 'publisher: name: source'.
- Upstream rights travel inward. COMTRADE-derived rows inside FAOSTAT may carry additional restrictions under UN COMTRADE's own notice.
How do you evaluate Creative Commons Licenses on Chemical Data in a data source?
- Read the license field, then the notes beneath it. Dryad lists commercial delivery terms-1.0 in API metadata while its terms note that citing the associated ES&T article is customary - both facts belong in your data dictionary.
- Separate database rights from content rights. Openly licensed chemical sets often split them: commercial delivery terms-style database terms plus per-record content terms, and photos under commercial delivery terms-SA 3.0 even when the table is open.
- Test commercial intent against NC clauses before building. commercial delivery terms-NC-SA 4.0 on the Kaggle LogP set means a revenue-generating use needs a different dataset, not a lawyer's opinion after launch.
Related terms
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Frequently asked questions
Is commercial delivery terms the same as having no license?
No. commercial delivery terms 1.0 is an affirmative public-domain dedication - the Dryad LCA dataset explicitly reserves no rights and requires no attribution, whereas an unstated license leaves you negotiating with the author.
Can I sell a product built on commercial delivery terms 4.0 chemical data?
Generally yes. commercial delivery terms 4.0 permits commercial reuse; the obligation is attribution in the form the publisher prescribes, plus indicating changes where the policy demands it.
What does the NC-SA combination forbid?
Commercial use entirely, and any derivative must carry the same non-commercial share-alike terms - so the 426,850-row Kaggle LogP compilation stays out of commercial pipelines regardless of transformation effort.
Datasets containing this field
Datasets containing Creative Commons Licenses on Chemical Data
6 datasets carry creative commons licenses on chemical data in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
BLS Producer Price Index — Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing (PCU334210334210)
series_id · year · period …+5 more
Census Data API — 2022 Economic Census Basic
NAICS2022 · NAICS2022_LABEL · ESTAB …+10 more
European Industrial Emissions Portal (E-PRTR) Data
Facility_INSPIRE_ID · parentCompanyName · facilityType …+19 more
EIA Petrochemical Feedstock & Refinery Olefin Production Data
Sourcekey · Date · Refinery and Blender Net Production …+3 more
EPA Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) Database
CHEMICAL ID · CHEMICAL NAME · STANDARDIZED PARENT COMPANY NAME …+14 more
EPA ChemView
Chemical identity (CASRN / Accession Number) · PMN number · Health & safety study references …+3 more
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