19990510: Licensing Request (Forms submission)

John,

As Dave Knight's note mentions, SUNY-A is a licensed Unidata site
and the atmospheric science department does function as the IDD
node for the campus.

NetCDF and LDM are freely available software packages from out ftp server
(ftp.unidata.ucar.edu) so there is no restriction about downloading
those packages. Since the atmospheric science department is already
receiving our IDD feed, if you need to obtain realtime data, you should
install the LDM software and coordinate your institutional relay
of data with them.

You can access the current Gempak release from the above ftp server using
login: gbuddy and password: XXXXXX
Gempak is a licensed software package and as your campus is licensed already,
you may use the software aso long as you abide by the terms of the software
contract. The primary terms of the contract stipulate that the software will be 
used for research and education purposes only, and you may not redistribute
the software.

The most recent distribution can be found under 
~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/gempak54upc_plxx.tar.gz
Specific installation instructions are available on the Gempak WWW pages,
and user guide documentation is available in the doc directory as well
as online in the Gempak tutorial. Installation requires vendor supported 
Fortran and C compilers for Solaris, Solaris for Intel, Irix, AIX, Dec OSF/1, 
and HP/UX.

A binary version of the software is available for Linux under the
~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/binary/linux directory if you desire to run under that
operating system since Motif is not part of the Linux OS. 

For specific questions regarding installation on a particular platform,
please provide us with the hardware and OS configuration you will be using.

All support questions should be sent to address@hidden.
Additionally, subscription to our mail lists (for update notification,
but fixes etc) can be accomplished through:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing-list-form.html

If you want to persue individual licensing for your group,
please provide the addition Contracts officer information
that was left blank below.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


>From: address@hidden (John Sicker)
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199905101857.MAA10199

>I, John Sicker, request your consideration of my institution's membership
>in the Unidata community. Thank you. 
>
>Name: John Sicker
>E-mail: address@hidden
>Institution: State Univ. of NY at Albany
>Department: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
>Street address: 251 Fuller Road
>City: Albany
>State: New York
>ZIP or Country code: 12203
>Country: USA
>Phone: (518)437-8717
>
>Contracts Officer: 
>E-mail: 
>Phone: 
>Street address: 
>Rest of address same as above.
>
>We plan to use the following package(s):
>GEMPAK
>netCDF
>
>From address@hidden  Wed May 19 11:32:25 1999
>Received: from atmos.albany.edu (redwood.atmos.albany.edu [169.226.4.37])
>       by unidata.ucar.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15789
>       for <address@hidden>; Wed, 19 May 1999 11:32:20 -0600 (MDT)
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199905191732.LAA15789
>Received: from oak.atmos.albany.edu (oak [169.226.4.39])
>       by atmos.albany.edu (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA10640;
>       Wed, 19 May 1999 17:32:19 GMT
>Received: (from knight@localhost)
>       by oak.atmos.albany.edu (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id RAA01750;
>       Wed, 19 May 1999 17:32:17 GMT
>Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 17:32:17 GMT
>From: "David J. Knight" <address@hidden>
>Message-Id: <address@hidden>
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: gempak and netcdf at asrc
>Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII
>
>Hi John,
>     I happened to be at Unidata yesterday. They mentioned
>that you had asked about licensing for netcdf and gempak.
>netcdf requires no license. Just grab it off their site.
>gempak does require a license, but, I would think asrc
>would fall under the department license (I'm just not sure if asrc
>is officially part of Suny Albany, or, instead part
>of the wider suny organization - in either case I do
>not expect there would be a difficulty). If Unidata
>agrees, they will probably just send you the password
>for the gempak software. If they do not agree, or you
>just want to get your own license anyway, they will
>send you the paperwork to be filled out.
>Let me know how it turns out,
>David
>
>David Knight
>Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences   Tel: (518)-442-4204
>SUNYA   ES-228                                 Fax: (518)-442-4494
>Albany, NY  12222                              Email: address@hidden
>