Re: Debian enquiry about data files in munsell (fwd)

[Faheem Mitha <faheem@faheem.info>]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Benjamin Eikel wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Am Montag, 2. September 2013, 11:21:43 schrieb Benjamin Eikel:
> > Hello,
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> > 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?

I don't think it is clear. The answer refers to software, but your 
question was about data.

                                                   Regards, Faheem

> Kind regrads
> Benjamin
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> ----------  Weitergeleitete Nachricht  ----------
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> 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
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> The software is free to use for any purpose, "as is" only. We offer no
> guarantee on the accuracy of the data.
> - Val
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> 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
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> On Sep 2, 2013, at 5:19 AM, debian@eikel.org wrote:
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> > 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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