Commit ca77eb37 authored by Bharath Ramsundar's avatar Bharath Ramsundar
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Added some FAQ questions around datasets from feedback

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@@ -94,11 +94,36 @@ scientific resources and techniques that aren't locked up by patents.
Our hope is to enable your company or organization to leverage
techniques with less worry about patent infringement.

We ask in return that you act as a responsible community member in
return and put in as much as you get out. If you find DeepChem very
We ask in return that you act as a responsible community member
and put in as much as you get out. If you find DeepChem very
valuable, please consider contributing back some innovations or
improvements so others can benefit. If you're getting a patent on your
invention, try to make sure that you don't infringe on anything in
DeepChem. Lots of things sneak past patent review. As an open source
community, we don't have the resources to actively defend ourselves
and we rely on your good judgment and help!

If I use DeepChem on my organization's data, do I have to release the data?
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Not at all! DeepChem is released with a permissive MIT license. Any
any analyses you perform belong entirely to you. You are under no
obligation to release your proprietary data or inventions.

What if I want to release data? Can DeepChem help?
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If you are interested in open sourcing data, the DeepChem
project maintains the
[MoleculeNet](https://deepchem.readthedocs.io/en/latest/moleculenet.html)
suite of datasets. Adding your dataset to MoleculeNet can be a
powerful way to ensure that a broad community of users can access your
released data in convenient fashion. It's important to note that
MoleculeNet provides programmatic access to data, which may not be
appropriate for all types of data (especially for clinical or patient
data which may be governed by regulators). Open source datasets can be
a powerful resource, but need to be handled with care.

Does MoleculeNet allow for releasing data under different licenses?
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MoleculeNet already supports datasets released under different
licenses. We can make work with you to use your license of choice.