Re: [visad] copyright for visad-2.0/dods/dap/DataDDS.java

• To: Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@xxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [visad] copyright for visad-2.0/dods/dap/DataDDS.java
• From: Curtis Rueden <ctrueden@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:41:56 -0500

Hi Mathieu,

  I have just discovered visad. And I am trying to package it for
> debian (Linux system).


Fantastic!

However looking at each file, there seems to be
> a lot of different copyright and license. Did anyone has a summary of
> all copyrights and licenses used in VISAD ?
>

Not to my knowledge. What you are doing by going through the sources is
probably what must be done, unfortunately.

In particular I am looking at:
>
> $ head ./visad-2.0/dods/dap/DataDDSjava
>

This is part of the JDAP distribution from:
  http://opendap.org/java-DAP

I could not find license information for JDAP or OpenDAP anywhere on their
site. However, I found a Debian thread about OpenDAP being LGPL:


http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/frankie-debian-org-OpenDAP-license-is-LGPL-td4823251.html

So it sounds like people have gone through some of this pain before. Might
be worth contacting them to find out the current status before proceeding
too far with repackaging stuff.

Regards,
Curtis

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <
mathieu.malaterre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>  I have just discovered visad. And I am trying to package it for
> debian (Linux system). However looking at each file, there seems to be
> a lot of different copyright and license. Did anyone has a summary of
> all copyrights and licenses used in VISAD ?
>
>  In particular I am looking at:
>
> $ head ./visad-2.0/dods/dap/DataDDS.java
>
> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> // Copyright (c) 1998, California Institute of Technology.
> // ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.   U.S. Government Sponsorship acknowledged.
> //
> // Please read the full copyright notice in the file COPYRIGHT
> // in this directory.
> //
> // Author: Jake Hamby, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
> //         Jake.Hamby@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> I could not find any COPYRIGHT file in the source jarball. Does anyone
> know what this file contained ?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Mathieu
>
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  • [visad] copyright for visad-2.0/dods/dap/DataDDS.java
    • From: Mathieu Malaterre