NASA CDF

2010-12-10 Thread Teemu Ikonen
Hello, I ran into a data-file which is a "CDF V2 Document, No summary info", according to /usr/bin/file. To my surprise there seems to be nothing in Debian which supports this format. The canonical CDF library appears to live at http://cdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/ and has a license ( http://cdf.gsfc.nasa.go

Re: NASA CDF

2010-12-10 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Teemu Ikonen writes: > The conclusion I draw from the threads above is that the license above > is DFSG-free. I agree with you, but also with those who observed that the notion of a federal agency holding copyright is a bit odd; published US government work falls into the public domain, and I wo

Re: NASA CDF

2010-12-10 Thread Chris Harshman
On 12/10/2010 11:31 AM, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: I agree with you, but also with those who observed that the notion of a federal agency holding copyright is a bit odd; published US government work falls into the public domain, and I would expect a work for hire (by a contractor) to have a correspond

Re: NASA CDF

2010-12-11 Thread Wols Lists
On 10/12/10 19:31, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Teemu Ikonen writes: > >> The conclusion I draw from the threads above is that the license above >> is DFSG-free. > I agree with you, but also with those who observed that the notion of a > federal agency holding copyright is a bit odd; published US govern

Re: NASA CDF

2010-12-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Aaron M. Ucko [101210 20:36]: > > The conclusion I draw from the threads above is that the license above > > is DFSG-free. > > I agree with you, but also with those who observed that the notion of a > federal agency holding copyright is a bit odd; published US government > work falls into the pu

Re: NASA CDF

2010-12-12 Thread Teemu Ikonen
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Aaron M. Ucko [101210 20:36]: >> > The conclusion I draw from the threads above is that the license above >> > is DFSG-free. >> >> I agree with you, but also with those who observed that the notion of a >> federal agency holding copyrig

Re: NASA CDF

2010-12-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Teemu Ikonen [101212 20:15]: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > * Aaron M. Ucko [101210 20:36]: > >> > The conclusion I draw from the threads above is that the license above > >> > is DFSG-free. > >> > >> I agree with you, but also with those who observed that the n