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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 ______________________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu