[Proj] Re: Re: Discovery: libproj4 stmerc = French Gauss-Laborde

[Eric Miller]

Well, the NASA Technical Reports Server has a reference, so maybe you can get it from them (or CASI actually).  But, it'll still probably cost money for the reproduction and you may only get a copy of a source print out of the Fortran code.  But, there shouldn't be any license restriction if NASA is the clear copyright holder (which the reference claims is the case).

NTRS REFERENCE:

http://tinyurl.com/rpj37 (Document Id: 19940003196, Publication Date: Jan. 1, 1994)

GENERAL ORDERING CONTACT INFO:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/index.cgi?method=ordering

PRICE LIST:

http://www.sti.nasa.gov/price1.pdf 

>>> hamish_nospam at yahoo.com 6/22/2006 2:56:50 AM >>>
Gerald I. Evenden wrote:

> NASA putting a copyright on the material---what bull shit!  Sorry, but
> there is no other appropriate description.  US tax dollars at work!!
> 
> Presumably there is no patent on the idea then redeveloping the
> software in another language is no problems---especially if one does
> not view the source code.


US Code title 17, ch 1, section 105:
"Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of
the United States Government, but the United States Government is not
precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by
assignment, bequest, or otherwise."

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000105----000-.html 
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000105----000-notes.html 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_of_the_United_States_Government 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_copyright_law 


re. the "limited exception for national technical information service"
in the notes section- if we are talking 5.25" floppies I think it is
pretty safe to say that any 5 yr copyright period will have expired by
now!


Hamish
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