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Calculate metrics about a lake using just its shape
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License? #13

Closed DruidSmith closed 10 years ago

DruidSmith commented 10 years ago

Hi Jeff - was wondering if there's a particular reason for the NASA license rather than CC0. The NASA license would prevent someone from using this code in conjunction with other open source code that were not their own original development work. I'm trying to lean toward CC0, myself. https://github.com/USEPA/FRS-getfacilities-samples/blob/master/LICENSE

jhollist commented 10 years ago

Dave,

As I understand it,that is the license required of us by EPA OGC. I would VERY much prefer a CC0 license as well, but I don't think it is "allowed" by the powers that be.

Granted, I didn't push much on this and was, for this anyway, just doing what I was told!

Jeff

DruidSmith commented 10 years ago

Unfortunate... Maybe at some point we can educate them on the problematic nature of the NASA license and push for cc0...

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From: Jeffrey W Hollister notifications@github.com Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 7:43 PM To: USEPA/lakemorpho Cc: Smith, David G. Subject: Re: [lakemorpho] License? (#13)

Dave,

As I understand it,that is the license required of us by EPA OGC. I would VERY much prefer a CC0 license as well, but I don't think it is "allowed" by the powers that be.

Granted, I didn't push much on this was, for this anyway, just doing what I was told!

Jeff

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/USEPA/lakemorpho/issues/13#issuecomment-35570274.

jhollist commented 10 years ago

Would love to. But I can't even get a usepa repo with outside collaborators with pull only access! Aaaaarrrggh!!!!

Might be interesting to see what comes of pushing out a repo with a different license? Hmmmm......

And I do know that these comments are public!

DruidSmith commented 10 years ago

At least we've gotten this far... Hopefully the rest won't be too far off.

jhollist commented 10 years ago

I hope. Everything seems to be a battle.

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Dave Smith notifications@github.comwrote:

At least we've gotten this far... Hopefully the rest won't be too far off.

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