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 <[email protected]> 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
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