Greetings, I'm near completion of a Debian package of IRAF, previously packaged by Zed Paubre, who has agreed to sponsor me. I believe this new release has new license issues.
Here's the deal. IRAF depends on TABLES (distributed separately, but TABLES depends on IRAF, so I'm preparing a new tarball to be the Debian .orig. There are other reasons, too.) TABLES has the following license: This software was prepared by Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government contract NAS5-26555. Users shall not, without prior written permission of the U.S. Government, establish a claim to statutory copyright. The Government and others acting on its behalf, shall have a royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license for Government purposes to publish, distribute, translate, copy, exhibit, and perform such material. And IRAF has: Copyright(c) 1986 Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. The IRAF software is publicly available, but is NOT in the public domain. The difference is that copyrights granting rights for unrestricted use and redistribution have been placed on all of the software to identify its authors. You are allowed and encouraged to take this software and use it as you wish, subject to the restrictions outlined below. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that references to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. (AURA), the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO), or the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF) not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission from NOAO. NOAO makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. NOAO DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL NOAO BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. NCARGRAPHICS Software Copyright Information The IRAF plot package includes four tasks (contour, surface, hafton, velvect) which call subroutines from the NCARGRAPHICS GKS-compatible graphics software package, version 1.0. The source for the NCARGRAPHICS software package has been modified for use within IRAF and is included on our source distribution tapes. Under new guidelines from the NSF, the NCARGRAPHICS software package is not in the public domain. We have been granted permission by UCAR to redistribute the NCARGRAPHICS software by agreeing to inform our users of the following terms and conditions. "Under new guidelines from the National Science Foundation, this NCAR software package is copyrighted and, therefore, not in the public domain. Distribution by NCAR does not include the right of the recipient or user to redistribute this software or to copy this software, except for one copy for archival purposes only. Distribution is permitted only under agreement with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). Requests for redistribution and/or copying of the software must be submitted in writing to: NCAR Contracts Office, Software Distribution, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307. We request that NCAR be acknowledged as the source of software used in any resulting research, publications, or sub-distributions. UCAR does not indemnify any infringement of copyright, patent or trademark through use or modification of this software." Seems to me like I should write to UCAR, no? Also, what defines who is acting on behalf of the goverment. Please Cc: me, Justin
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