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[McIDAS #FIJ-740488]: access to McIDAS

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  • Subject: [McIDAS #FIJ-740488]: access to McIDAS
  • Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:24:14 -0600
Hola Félix,

re:
> I'd like to request access to McIDAS using my current e-mail address
> (address@hidden) I have registered, because thought the e-mail address is
> not EDU in its name, I'm a professor at the University of Extremadura,
> Spain.
> 
> Thanks in advance,

Unidata has long been licensed by the Space Science and Engineering Center
(SSEC) of the University of Wisconsin at Madison to distribute our version
of McIDAS, Unidata McIDAS, to educational institutions.  Within the past year
SSEC refined their definition of allowable use of McIDAS at institutions
outside of the U.S.  Representatives from non-U.S. educational sites are
typically recognized by their email addresses not ending in '.edu'.

I am required to have prospective McIDAS users read and agree to the
following:

  SSEC considers permissible users of the international university community
  to be those who are using McIDAS-X for academic classroom instruction or
  academic research by students related to obtaining a degree. Research 
institutes
  and government agencies that use McIDAS-X for meteorological research or
  operations must purchase a license from SSEC for the non-academic use. Given
  this clarification, and if Unidata users remain within the licensing terms
  that include no re-distribution of any portion of the software, SSEC is 
agreeable
  to providing this software to the international university Unidata user 
community.

Given the above position, we need a clear statement from you that specifies
_all_ of the following:

- you are accessing McIDAS from Unidata for use in a university
- McIDAS must be used for academic classroom instruction or academic research
  by students related to obtaining a degree
- your installation of McIDAS is not for use by a government agency, 
non-academic
  research institute, or private concern
- you agree that you will not re-distribute any portion of the software

You have already met the first of these conditions: you are a professor at
the University of Extremadura.  As soon as you state that your use of Unidata
McIDAS will conform to the other terms listed above, we will add the email 
address:

address@hidden

to the list that allows downloading of Unidata McIDAS.

> Félix R. Rodríguez                                  (wMl)
> ____________________________________________________________
> Universidad de Extremadura
> Depto. Ingeniería de Sistemas Informáticos y Telemáticos
> Escuela Politécnica
> Campus Universitario
> 10071 Cáceres, España-Spain

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: FIJ-740488
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed