On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 03:59:01AM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> > > 'Under new guidelines from the National Science Foundation, this NCAR > > software package is copyrighted and, therefore, not in the public domain. > > Distribution by NCAR does not include the right of the recipient or user > > to redistribute this software or to copy this software, except for one > > copy for archival purposes only. > > Oops. Very non-free, and, as it stands, not even distributable. > > > Seems to me like I should write to UCAR, no? > > Hm, couldn't hurt, but the text quoted here does not indicate that > they would be friendly towards releasing the software under a free > license. If you can get a Debian-specific permission to distribute, > it could go into non-free. I'll mail them today. The UCAR/NCAR routines are: "Copyright (C) 1986 by UCAR" and the LZW compression routine algorithm, which will be allowed in Debian main shortly has: Date of Patent: Dec. 10, 1985 Are the UCAR routines copyright of the type that will expire (this year?)? Justin
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