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

[Tom Roche]

Newcomb, Doug Thu, 7 May 2015 13:33:42 -0400
> work done by contractors may be under copyright, depending on how the contract is written.

This appears to be a non-issue:

https://gis.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/Exercise1_2015.pdf
>>> © 2015 UCAR and UNC-Asheville. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License, which permits all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

I have a request for (their) comment on my question[1]. Unfortunately no URI for their response (e.g.) to the issue/ticket referenced in the following:

From: GIS Helpdesk <gissupport at rap.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: gissupport at rap.ucar.edu
Subject: [rt.rap.ucar.edu #71826] GIS Helpdesk Autoreply: FOSS fork of "GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences"
RT-Ticket: rt.rap.ucar.edu #71826
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> This message has been automatically generated in response to a request for support made to the NCAR GIS Program. Your message:

> Subject: "FOSS fork of "GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences"",

> has been sent to GIS Program support staff and is now in the queue. The ID assigned to this request is [rt.rap.ucar.edu #71826]. Please include the string:

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That being said, given the licenses on their exercises[2], I suspect this is a non-issue, and will cheerfully take a whack at forking/reverse-engineering[1] their tutorial[3] when I get some time. Anyone else interested?

FWIW, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>

[1]: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/southeast-us/2015-May/000032.html
[2]: https://gis.ucar.edu/gis-tutorial-atmospheric-sciences
[3]: http://gis.ucar.edu/projects/course-introduction-gis