cellhunter --- the state of development and future

[Onen]

Hi,

adding to my last comments...

Onen wrote:
> 
> Ok. If I understand you correctly, you would like some kind of anonymous 
> account, where people could upload if they don't want to create an 
> account? Did I understand you correctly?
> 
> Well I have nothing against it, it is a good idea to me. But is it good 
> enough regarding legal aspect? Creative commons license makes you have 
> to put the name of contributors (and possibly link them to the data they 
> provided, not sure about this). Is an anonymous account compatible with 
> this? I guess, if people would upload using a same account, this would 
> be one contributor name, and would legally be ok, isn't it?
> 

Another point against an "open" account: imagine somebody starts 
uploading garbage. Once we notice it. It could be difficult to know what 
to delete, if a lot of people are using this account. I am not very sure 
we could reliably rely on IP address to find out what should be deleted.

Onen