Am Dienstag, 3. September 2013, 21:27:57 schrieb Faheem Mitha: > On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Benjamin Eikel wrote: > > 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? > > I don't think it is clear. The answer refers to software, but your > question was about data.
I wrote another e-mail on September 3, 2013 and asked for clarification, but I did not get an answer yet. > > Regards, Faheem > > > 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/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Under the two moons of Hydrot, and under the eternal stars, the > two-inch wooden spaceship and its microscopic cargo toiled down the > slope toward the drying little rivulet. > -- > James Blish - Surface Tension -- 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/44494616.89YYL685qj@pc-benjamin
