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Hi Richard,
You wrote, regarding our netCDF software distribution conditions:
> The requirement that causes problems is this one:
>
> Further, the user agrees to credit
> UCAR/Unidata in any publications that result from the use of this
> software or in any product that includes this software.
>
> This causes a problem for several reasons:
...
> Would you be willing to change this requirement into a request? If
> the US is most important to you, this would not be much of a change in
> practice.
As you suggested, we have now changed the wording in question to:
Further, UCAR requests that the user credit
UCAR/Unidata ...
Our intellectual property office has agreed to this change, we have changed
the on-line COPYRIGHT document, and we have announced the change in the
"What's New with NetCDF" web page at
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/whatsnew.html
We have also made a similar change in some our other freely-available
software packages.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Regards,
Russ Rew
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Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu