Re: HDF-EOS

[Ivan Shmakov <ivan@main.uusia.org>]

>>>>> "AM" == Alastair McKinstry <alastair.mckinstry@ichec.ie> writes:

 AM> Hi, Has anyone any experience with HDF-EOS ? This is a specialised
 AM> form of the HDF data format from NASA.
 AM> http://www.hdfgroup.org/hdfeos.html

 AM> Specifically, has anyone used it with Debian, or know about
 AM> packaging it for Debian ?  Its used by some projects I support at
 AM> work, and doesn't appear to be in Debian yet, and might add it to
 AM> the Debian Meteorology blend.

	Any news on this one?

 AM> I'm looking for license information now, but it appears to be free.

	In a private mail conversation (sometime around 2008-02-13),
	Ebraahim Moghaddam-Taaheri, [1] has claimed that both HDF-EOS
	and SDP Toolkit packages ``are paid by NASA, and therefore, are
	free software''.

[1] Abe_Taaheri at raytheon dot com

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