Thanks. I've created LEGAL-525 [1]. The file is only in my github dev branch 
for now. I'll hold off on merging until this is resolved.

-Matt

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LEGAL/issues/LEGAL-525
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From: Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 3:15 PM
To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [geometry] 3D Model License

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On Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 15:00 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, and let's not add it to the repo until we get clearance from legal...
>
> Gary
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 14:49 Matt Juntunen <matt.juntu...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm adding an OBJ model file of the Utah teapot [1] (a standard 3D test
>> model) to the project for use in unit tests and code examples. The file I
>> used was generated by Nate Morrical at the University of Utah [2] from the
>> original surface descriptions from Martin Newell in 1975. Neither the files
>> from Nate nor the original surface descriptions include a license. I
>> reached out to Nate about using his model in the project and he suggested
>> that the license is CCO [3], i.e. public domain, but that I should check
>> with SIGGRAPH to verify since they host the original files. I've emailed
>> SIGGRAPH but I'm not very optimistic about getting a reply.
>>
>>  Does anyone know how to add a proper license and attribution for this
>> file in the project? Where does it need to go? If it truly is in the public
>> domain, do I need to even add anything? RAT does not complain since it
>> treats the file as binary.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Matt J
>>
>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot
>> [2] https://www.cs.utah.edu/~natevm/newell_teaset/newell_teaset.zip
>> [3] https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/
>>
>

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