Hello, Am Montag, 2. September 2013, 11:21:43 schrieb Benjamin Eikel: > Hello, > > Am Freitag, 30. August 2013, 16:47:35 schrieb Faheem Mitha: > > On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Benjamin Eikel wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Am Dienstag, 20. August 2013, 14:18:49 schrieb Faheem Mitha: > > >> Hi Charles, > > >> > > >> I'm forwarding information from Dr. Wickham about the data file in the > > >> munsell package as requested by you. See your email at the bottom, Let > > >> me know what followup you want, if any. I think contacting the authors > > >> of a 1943 paper is unlikely to be successful. We could contact the > > >> people who put this data online (presumably people at RIT) to ask them > > >> what they think. There is a feedback page at > > >> http://www.cis.rit.edu/mcsl/contact. > > > > > > did anybody contact the people there? If not, I can do it and ask about > > > the usage/license of the data. > > > > I haven't contacted them. Feel free to do so. > > I used the contact form to ask for the data's license. I will report back > when I got an answer.
below you find the answer that I got. Does this mean that the data is public domain? Kind regrads Benjamin ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Betreff: Re: [General MCSL information] License for Munsell color data file "real.dat" Datum: Dienstag, 3. September 2013, 11:01:12 Von: Val Hemink <v...@cis.rit.edu> An: deb...@eikel.org The software is free to use for any purpose, "as is" only. We offer no guarantee on the accuracy of the data. - Val Valerie Hemink, Staff Assistant and Notary Public Munsell Color Science Laboratory Rochester Institute of Technology 54 Lomb Memorial Drive, COL-1075 Rochester, New York 14623 Voice: (585) 475-7189 Fax: (585) 475-4444 On Sep 2, 2013, at 5:19 AM, deb...@eikel.org wrote: > Benjamin Eikel sent a message using the contact form at http://www.cis.rit.edu/research/mcsl/contact. > > Dear Sir or Madam! > > the Debain med team [1] plans to create a package for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution [2] that will contain the R package “munsell” [3]. “R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics” [4]. The R package “munsell” contains the data file “real.dat” obtained from your site at http://www.cis.rit.edu/mcsl/online/munsell.php. To be able to create the Debian package, we have to know under which license this data file can be used. Can you please tell us, under which conditions the data can be used? > > Kind regards > Benjamin Eikel > > [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/ > [2] http://www.debian.org/ > [3] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/munsell/index.html > [4] http://www.r-project.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1461954.zzl708Vcjx@pc-benjamin
