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asascience-open / ncSOS

SOS Service on top of THREDDS
MIT License
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License of ncSOS and tested clients #126

Closed nuest closed 9 years ago

nuest commented 10 years ago

Hi! Just came across your software, really cool! Just wondering if this is an open source project, I could not find license information anywhere.

What clients did you test yet? I'll take a look with mine as soon as I can: https://github.com/52North/sos4R/issues/24

daf commented 10 years ago

Hi @nuest! We have a long-standing TODO to update licensing information on our repositories. Most are GPL but I can't give you a direct answer yet without some internal discussion over the correct one to use here. Will spur that discussion along and get back to you soon.

We generally test with a python client we developed, pyoos, but happy to see another client to try testing with.

We have a server with some datasets and the most recent release of ncSOS running, see the README: https://github.com/asascience-open/ncSOS#quick-links.

dpsnowden commented 10 years ago

Close. Licensing issues are mostly answered above. We'll work to get better docs for clients on those repos see pyoos

nuest commented 10 years ago

"Mostly answered" licensing issues are unanswered, in my opinion, but I understand you have not finished the internal discussion yet. Imho there should be no grey areas or vagueness regarding the license, and as a developer I will not touch a repository that does not contain a LICENSE file and states the name of the license in the readme.

dpsnowden commented 10 years ago

@nuest makes a good point about developers and their willingness to engage based on the presence/absence of clear licenses. @daf, if you can determine the conclusion your organization came to, I'll get in touch with Unidata and see if they have issues.

Is there an ncWMS repo? They have likely crossed this same bridge.

kwilcox commented 10 years ago

+1 for a MIT style licence. Was this funded entirely by NOAA? If so, the contract most likely dictates it be public domain.

kwilcox commented 9 years ago

:copyright: any updates on this?