[Southeast-US] projects? "GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences"

[Tom Roche]

Vaclav Petras Wed, 6 May 2015 22:08:02 -0400
>> Their Term of Use [1] are quite strict.

Really?

http://www2.ucar.edu/terms-of-use
> 1. Site Content.  Throughout the Site you may access images, information, documents, software, data, models and services (collectively, the "Materials") developed at UCAR or provided by other Site users ("Contributors"). Some of these Materials are governed by their own specific terms of use and copyrights. In the absence of specific terms of use, these Terms of Use shall apply. The burden of determining that use of any Materials on or linked to a Site is permissible, rests with you, the user.

> 2. Use. The user is granted the right to use the Site for non-commercial, non-profit research, or educational purposes only, without any fee or cost. In the event you breach these Terms of Use or any Material-specific terms or you infringe any copyrights, UCAR may pursue any and all legal and equitable remedies available to it, although UCAR is under no legal obligation to do so.

As previously noted,

Tom Roche Wed, 06 May 2015 21:45:58 -0400
>>> (unless otherwise noted) federally-funded materials are public-domain. Furthermore, fork/recreate is pretty clearly "fair use," and there's no licensing on any of those pages that even tries to discourage that.

Life Would Be Easier if they stuck a Creative Commons license on their materials, but I've never seen one on a Federal document (and I've seen lots of EPA docs, which are all public domain).

>> I guess radical changes

or "transformative"[2], hence "fair use"

>> might be needed to adopt the material to a different software.

FWIW, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>

[1]: http://www2.ucar.edu/terms-of-use
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#1._Purpose_and_character_of_the_use