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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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
Received on Thu Apr 11 2013 - 03:57:44 BST
