Re: HDF-EOS

[Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>]

Le dimanche 30 août 2009 à 19:05 +0700, Ivan Shmakov a écrit :
> >>>>> "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''.
Well, be careful here, paid by NASA does NOT mean free software (at
least, automatically).
For example, worldwind (managed by debian-science) is developed by the
NASA and is released under the NASA Open Source Agreement. This is not a
free license because it includes a provision requiring changes to be
your "original creation".

See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html for more details.

Sylvestre