Licensing

PLAZA Licensing

1. The resources and data comprising PLAZA are free for academic research purposes only. The data in the PLAZA platform is licensed using the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
2. Academic collaborations sponsored by industrial partners are not considered academic research, but are considered as commercial purposes.
3. The use of PLAZA by an industrial party at any stage during their research, development and/or commercial exploitation are considered commercial purposes.

4. If you are a commercial venture and wish to make use of PLAZA for commercial or R&D purposes, please contact us first. Commercial ventures can explore PLAZA using these PLAZA light access terms:

   1. Commercial ventures can browse the PLAZA platform, FTP data, and API for the express purpose of testing the PLAZA platform.
   2. Commercial ventures can explore the PLAZA Workbench by using a company email address, by indicating they are a non-academic user, and by providing the company name, during the registration procedure. Access to a maximum of 5 Workbench experiments is granted for the sole purpose of testing and exploring the PLAZA platform.
5. Re-distribution of large-scale PLAZA comparative genomics datasets without attribution through other online databases is not permitted, please contact us or view the data-license for more information.

Data License

The data in the PLAZA platform is licensed for academic purposes using the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

This license thus ensures that the data comes with both rights and restrictions.

This license gives the following rights:

• You can share the data: this includes copying and redistribution of the data in any medium or format (see section 1.l, 2.a.1 and 3.b of the BY-NC-SA 4.0 license)
• You can adapt the data: this includes transformation of the data and building upon the data (see section 1.a, 1.b, 2.a.1 and 2.a.5 of the BY-NC-SA 4.0 license)

This license comes with the following restrictions, if you decide to share or adapt the data:

• You must attribute the PLAZA platform by giving credit & linking to the license (see section 3.a and section 5 of the BY-NC-SA 4.0 license)
• You may not use the data for commercial purposes (see section 1.k of the BY-NC-SA 4.0 license)
• If you transform or build upon the material, you must distribute the results using the same license as the PLAZA data (see section 3.b.1 of the BY-NC-SA 4.0 license)
• You cannot add additional restrictions to the resulting data (see section 3.b.3 of the BY-NC-SA 4.0 license)

See here for the legal terminology with regards to the license.