Attribution and licensing

SC-WBD is built on publicly released atlases, receptor maps and neuroimaging datasets. Several of them attach conditions — attribution, non-commercial use, share-alike — and those conditions propagate into anything derived from them.11Generated by site/gen_attribution.py, which enumerates every card in scwbd/sources/cards/ and every entry in scwbd/anatomy/sources.py and renders them through the same scwbd.sources.attribution module the release path uses. Regenerate with make site-attribution.

Effective licence union

The union below is the worst case over every source the repository holds, including sources no default code path currently loads. It is not a statement about any particular artifact.

non-commercial: yes; share-alike: yes; attribution: required; redistribution: none; SHARE-ALIKE IN FORCE: derivative works must be released under the same licence; 27 source(s) with UNKNOWN licence (adni, ds000113, hcp-young-adult, mne-sample, mne-spm-face, ram-intracranial, things-eeg2, tuh-eeg, ukbiobank-brain-imaging, buckner2011, conte69, desikan2006, destrieux2010, enigma_hcp_sc, fsaverage, glasser2016, goulas_autoradiography, hcps1200_maps, hill2010, julich_brain, margulies2016, markov2014, netneuro_lausanne_sc, neuromaps, raichle_metabolism, schaefer2018, sydnor2021) — unknown is not permissive

Read the trailing clause literally: unknown is not permissive. A source whose licence text names no terms is carried as unresolved, never rounded down to “fine”.22is_vacuous_licence_text exists because a registry entry once read “See repository LICENSE (open, academic use)” for an atlas whose actual licence imposes no academic-use limit at all — an invented restriction, since corrected. The classifier now refuses to resolve text that names no terms.

The three conditions that bind

Hansen receptor maps — CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Non-commercial and share-alike. Two questions have to be kept apart, and a page that merges them will misreport: does the object contain Hansen data, and does the default prior read it? These have different answers today.reports/licence_audit.md Where the terms attach, derivative works must be released under CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.

Tian subcortical atlas — citation is the condition

The Melbourne Subcortex Atlas grants use without restriction subject to the single condition that any publication using it cites Tian et al. (2020). It is not a non-commercial licence. The citation below is how that condition is met.33Verified against the vendored licence text at assets/src/tian_subcortex/license.txt, not against the registry's summary of it.

Schaefer 2018 — MIT, over GSP terms that name nothing

The parcellation labels are MIT (CBIG). Underneath sits Genomics Superstruct Project data “under its own terms”, and those terms are not named. The classifier resolves this to unknown rather than to MIT, and it is shown here as unresolved.

Unsettled, and deliberately not answered

Whether a model trained on CC-BY-NC-SA data is a derivative work of that data is recorded in the release manifest as unsettled -- no answer asserted. This site does not assert an answer. The conservative reading — assume it does — is the one that fails safe.scwbd/release/manifest.py

Owner licence decision, on the record

The manifest carries the owner's decision and its history, because a superseded decision is evidence about how the current one was reached.scwbd/release/manifest.py The current decision accepts attribution; it records that the strongest supportable claim is “no established restriction remains” and explicitly not “commercially clear”.

Dataset sources

15 cards in scwbd/sources/cards/. Citations are reproduced verbatim; for the ODC-By datasets, attribution is the whole of the obligation.

Anatomy and atlas sources

27 entries in scwbd/anatomy/sources.py.

Redistribution

Several datasets carry redistribution_class: none — among them HCP Young Adult, ADNI, UK Biobank and TUH-EEG. This site hosts no copy of any of them and links to no derived data. Access goes through each provider's own agreement.