Independent stock commentator David Webb said he would make the Webb-site Database available for public access on GitHub after his death, in a reversal of his earlier plans to shut down the site for good.
Webb revealed in a post on Monday that he received over 100 offers to take forward his website and database created in 1998 after announcing he had only a few months to live after a long battle with cancer last month.
In the latest post, Webb said he would still close down the website because he “would not want it potentially polluted or corrupted with clickbait, crypto-scams or worse, or used to advocate something of which” he would not have approved. “The editorial side of it has to die with me.”
But he would leave the database together with his self-developed collection software in a public repository on GitHub as his “final gift to the public interest”, he wrote.
The database will be under the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which allows commercialization and only requires attribution for the foundational database, Webb said.
Webb said he has been overwhelmed by the thousands of people who send him tributes and good wishes.
“Some of them have moved me to tears,” he wrote. “While I don't have time to respond to everyone individually, I want you to know that each one of them means a lot to me and for my family to know how much my work has meant to others.”
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