Re: netCDF Perl license

• To: Orion Poplawski <orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: netCDF Perl license
• From: Steve Emmerson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:30:54 -0700

Orion,

Your request will be part of the next release.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson

------- Original Message
Date:    Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:20:54 -0700
From:    Orion Poplawski <orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>To:      support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
          , netcdf-perl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: netCDF Perl license

As currently distributed, the netCDF Perl license is not OSI compatible because of the following clause:

  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 is a restriction on use and is unacceptable in a truly free distribution like Fedora. The NetCDF license had a similar clause and was changed to:

   Further, UCAR requests that the user credit
  UCAR/Unidata in any publications that result from the use of this
  software or in any product that includes this software, although this
  is not an obligation.

Please consider changing the netCDF Perl license in a similar manner so that it can be packaged as part of Fedora.

Thanks!

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