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> Dear Sir, > I want to obtain the access to McIDAS. And I am from a degree-granting > educational institution. So what can I do? Unidata has long been licensed by the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) of the University of Wisconsin at Madison to distribute our version of McIDAS, Unidata McIDAS, to educational institutions. Within the past year SSEC refined their definition of allowable use of McIDAS at institutions outside of the U.S. Representatives from these sites are typically recognized by their email addresses not ending in '.edu'. I am now required to have prospective McIDAS users read and agree to the following: SSEC considers permissible users of the international university community to be those who are using McIDAS-X for academic classroom instruction or academic research by students related to obtaining a degree. Research institutes and government agencies that use McIDAS-X for meteorological research or operations must purchase a license from SSEC for the non-academic use. Given this clarification, and if Unidata users remain within the licensing terms that include no re-distribution of any portion of the software, SSEC is agreeable to providing this software to the international university Unidata user community. Given the above restrictions, we need a clear statement from you that specifies all of the following: - you are accessing McIDAS from Unidata for use in a university - McIDAS must be used for academic classroom instruction or academic research by students related to obtaining a degree - your installation of McIDAS is not for use by a government agency, non-academic research institute, or private concern - you agree that you will not re-distribute any portion of the software As soon as you state that your use of Unidata McIDAS will conform to the terms listed above, we will verify that we are allowed to grant you access to Unidata McIDAS. If we are so-allowed, we will add the email address address@hidden to the list that allows downloading of Unidata McIDAS. > _________________________________ > Yang, Tao > Dendroclimatology and Dendroecology > Department of Earth and Environment Sciences,Lanzhou University > Center for Arid Environment and Paleoclimate Research (CAEP) > Key Laboratory of West China's Environmental System (MOE) > Southern Tianshui Road NO.222, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China > ZIp:730000 > Email: address@hidden & address@hidden > _________________________________ Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ZYH-742734 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed