Dear CF list members, Perhaps my question is a trivial one:
What is the copyright status or licensing system of the CF names? This might sound a weird question for a community project, but I actually now encountered a problem related to this issue: We are building a national database on atmospheric measurements, and I suggested to our service provider to use NETCDF CF names on the properties that have such names already. Now, the service provider found on the http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/ page a link to https://www.llnl.gov/disclaimer.html With "All documents available from this server may be protected under the U.S. and Foreign Copyright Laws. Permission to reproduce may be required. " Understandably, they were concerned can they use the names on a public database without some clear right to use such. As a scientist, I find this rather silly, but I do kind of understand their point as well. Does NETCDF CF have a copyright? If so, to who? The mailing list members? More importantly: should the webpage include a text on the subject? Does it already? Free to use on any purpose? Best regards, Ari Asmi -- Ari Asmi, Physicist, Research Coordinator Div. of Atmospheric Sciences, Dept. of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 64, FI-00014, FINLAND +358 9 191 51081, +358 40 77 09 729, Skype: ari_asmi _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
