Re: Debian enquiry about data files in munsell (fwd)
Hello,
Am Montag, 2. September 2013, 11:21:43 schrieb Benjamin Eikel:
> Hello,
>
> Am Freitag, 30. August 2013, 16:47:35 schrieb Faheem Mitha:
> > On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Benjamin Eikel wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Am Dienstag, 20. August 2013, 14:18:49 schrieb Faheem Mitha:
> > >> Hi Charles,
> > >>
> > >> I'm forwarding information from Dr. Wickham about the data file in the
> > >> munsell package as requested by you. See your email at the bottom, Let
> > >> me know what followup you want, if any. I think contacting the authors
> > >> of a 1943 paper is unlikely to be successful. We could contact the
> > >> people who put this data online (presumably people at RIT) to ask them
> > >> what they think. There is a feedback page at
> > >> http://www.cis.rit.edu/mcsl/contact.
> > >
> > > did anybody contact the people there? If not, I can do it and ask about
> > > the usage/license of the data.
> >
> > I haven't contacted them. Feel free to do so.
>
> I used the contact form to ask for the data's license. I will report back
> when I got an answer.
below you find the answer that I got. Does this mean that the data is public
domain?
Kind regrads
Benjamin
---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ----------
Betreff: Re: [General MCSL information] License for Munsell color data file
"real.dat"
Datum: Dienstag, 3. September 2013, 11:01:12
Von: Val Hemink <val@cis.rit.edu>
An: debian@eikel.org
The software is free to use for any purpose, "as is" only. We offer no
guarantee on the accuracy of the data.
- Val
Valerie Hemink, Staff Assistant and Notary Public
Munsell Color Science Laboratory
Rochester Institute of Technology
54 Lomb Memorial Drive, COL-1075
Rochester, New York 14623
Voice: (585) 475-7189
Fax: (585) 475-4444
On Sep 2, 2013, at 5:19 AM, debian@eikel.org wrote:
> Benjamin Eikel sent a message using the contact form at
http://www.cis.rit.edu/research/mcsl/contact.
>
> Dear Sir or Madam!
>
> the Debain med team [1] plans to create a package for the Debian GNU/Linux
distribution [2] that will contain the R package “munsell” [3]. “R is a free
software environment for statistical computing and graphics” [4]. The R
package “munsell” contains the data file “real.dat” obtained from your site at
http://www.cis.rit.edu/mcsl/online/munsell.php. To be able to create the
Debian package, we have to know under which license this data file can be used.
Can you please tell us, under which conditions the data can be used?
>
> Kind regards
> Benjamin Eikel
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/
> [2] http://www.debian.org/
> [3] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/munsell/index.html
> [4] http://www.r-project.org/
>
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