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
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> http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/ page a link to
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> https://www.llnl.gov/disclaimer.html
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> With "All documents available from this server may be protected under the U.S. and Foreign Copyright Laws. Permission to reproduce may be required. "
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> 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?
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> Free to use on any purpose?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ari Asmi
>
>
>
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