copyright question

[Ben Abbott]

On Friday, February 29, 2008, at 11:13AM, "Jonathan Stickel" <jjstickel at vcn.com> wrote:
>I have written some data smoothing code that borrows heavily from code 
>published as supplemental information in Analytical Chemistry, an ACS 
>journal.  I would like to submit my code to Octave (as part of a package 
>in octave-forge).  Here is what the ACS website says about the copyright:
>
>"Electronic Supporting Information files are available without a 
>subscription to ACS Web Editions. All files are copyrighted by the 
>American Chemical Society. Files may be downloaded for personal use; 
>users are not permitted to reproduce, republish, redistribute, or resell 
>any Supporting Information, either in whole or in part, in either 
>machine-readable form or any other form. For permission to reproduce 
>this material, contact the ACS Copyright Office by e-mail at 
>copyright at acs.org or by fax at 202-776-8112."
>
>I plan to email ACS about this, but is there a suggested way to ask 
>permission?  My thought is to GPL my code submission and cite the 
>publication.  Do you think ACS will allow this, or should I ask for 
>something else?
>
>Thanks,
>Jonathan
>

Jonathan,

I'm intrigued.

I occasionally run into claims of copyright issues with regards to published algorithms. Can you post a reference to the paper in question, so that I may take a look?

Thanks
Ben