Dear all,
I'm almost certain that none of the CF convention material falls in the
"protected" category. Does anyone disagree?
Even if a document were copyrighted, I don't think the individual words
in the document would be restricted to being used by others.
But I'm not a lawyer.
Karl
On 4/11/13 2:57 AM, Asmi, Ari J wrote:
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
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