NIST data licenses/copyright
Hello
I am packaging something which contain some NIST data [1]. The license refered by is reproduce here.
I would like to know if this license is DFSG-free or not.
thanks for your help.
Frederic
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[1] https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/nist-xcom-photon-cross-sections-database-srd-8
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