UniProt, the Universal Protein resource, combines the data from SWISS-PROT, TrEMBL and the Protein Information Resource (PIR). As reported by Science Commons, the data in UniProt is now under a Creative Commons license. The UniProt data is available for download in multiple formats, including RDF in both one complete bundle and as data sets for benchmarking RDF tools.
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Thanks for the information Alf, this is certainly good news. The licensing requirements were the main barrier I was having in implementing new ways to browse the data. It is great that they have followed the trend started by the NIH in allowing commercial use of this information.
Note that all of this data was originally free for commercial use. Licensing fees (for Swiss-Prot data) were only introduced in 1996 when funding ran out. The data has been available for free again since 2003, after the NIH started funding the project (though this was never widely advertised). The adoption of the widely known Creative Commons license is mainly a simplification, for people who don't like to (or can't afford to) deal with custom licenses...