Re: HDF-EOS

[Alastair McKinstry <alastair.mckinstry@ichec.ie>]

Hi,

HDF-EOS4 (or HDF-EOS2 ; the original versioning is wierd: EOS for  
HDF4) is in the NEW queue;
I have received confirmation from the original authors (Raytheon) that  
it is free software, except for
libterralib sections (which included some Intel headers for JPEG  
handling) . These were removed,
and a DFSG-free version of the code produced, that used libterralib in  
Debian
(to do this,  I had to resurrect libterralib in Debian, which had  
dropped out of Lenny.

HDF-EOS5 (EOS for HDF5) is nearly ready, getting the same treatment  
(Its on my devel machine
at home, not reachable from the Internet, here at work).

I've been building HDF-EOS in order to include ncl_ncarg in Debian  
meteorology.

Regards
Alastair

On 30 Aug 2009, at 21:28, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:

> 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