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Greetings John;
Eclipse [1] is currently performing due diligence on a third party library that one of our projects wishes to redistribute and that third party lib includes content from Net CDF for Java. As part of our review, we'd like your help to understand the provenance and applicable licensing for Net CDF for Java. To that end, I include a few quick questions for you, as follows:
1. From checking out the project's page [2] and github site [3], it would appear that most (if not all) content has been authored solely by unidata (ucar) employees? If that is not 100% the case, we would like to understand what, if any, contribution mechanism the project uses (for eg. formal CLA or email confirmation of user's rights to contribute and agreement to project license)? Or does the project simply rely solely on the ucar's terms of use [4].
2. We understand the project was originally LGPL licensed and is now MIT Licensed. Has there been any other license changes?
3. Finally does, Net CDF for java redistribute and any third party content itself?
Thanks in advance for your time.
[1] www.eclipse.org
[2] https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/entry/netcdf_java_library_version_44
[3] https://github.com/Unidata/thredds
[4] http://www2.ucar.edu/terms-of-use
Kind Regards,
Sharon
Sharon Corbett
Intellectual Property
Eclipse Foundation Inc.