Re: Debian enquiry about data files in munsell (fwd)
Am Dienstag, 3. September 2013, 21:27:57 schrieb Faheem Mitha:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Benjamin Eikel wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I don't think it is clear. The answer refers to software, but your
> question was about data.
I wrote another e-mail on September 3, 2013 and asked for clarification, but I
did not get an answer yet.
>
> Regards, Faheem
>
> > 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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