Re: 200041109:copyright notice

>To: address@hidden
>From: John Evans <address@hidden>
>Subject: copyright notice
>Organization: IMCS
>Keywords: 200411082014.iA8KEfvV013151

Hi John,

> I started a sourceforge project a while ago that links against the NetCDF 
> software.  I've included Unidata's copyright notice in my project's copyright 
> notice, but I'm not quite sure if I actually have to do that if I'm not 
> including your code but just linking to it.  Also, might you have any 
> guidance on how to choose an opensource license to go with this?  Tentatively 
> I chose the MIT license.  I'm pretty sure I'm in the free-and-clear with 
> this, but I thought I'd better check to be sure.

If you just link to the netCDF library, there is no need to include
our Copyright notice.

I prefer the MIT-style license if you don't mind that commercial
organizations can incorporate your software into products they sell.
The LGPL license also allows this, but is considerably more complex
and thus harder to understand.

--Russ

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