
As we approach the first public beta of version 5.0 of the THREDDS Data Server (TDS), we have decided to revisit our software license. Currently, both NetCDF-Java and the TDS are released under the same license that the netCDF C library uses, which is a license that was 'home grown' at UCAR. It's usually called an 'MIT-style license,' though it is perhaps more similar to the BSD-3 Clause license. Rather than continue to use the 'home grown' license, we will be moving to a standard, off-the-shelf BSD-3 license, bringing the TDS and NetCDF-Java packages more in line with standard practice within the Open Source community.
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