[Freegis-list] NCAR Graphics is relative open now

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 08:39:12PM +0200, Janko Hauser wrote:
> The people from NCAR (National Corporation of Atmospheric Research)
> have opened there graphics library. This is not only a very solid,
> albeit in same parts ancient graphics package, many Fortran
> programmers will know, but it also has many routines regarding
> mapping, geographical gridding and interpolation.
> 
> They do not claim to be Open Source, but the license is very free, as
> far as I understand it. I hope there will be some nice packages now
> become also free, which build on top of this library.

I think NCAR Graphics is relevant for GIS as are other similar libraries.

NCAR seems to be uncertain what to do with the software - the license is
a halfbacked Open Source license. Some sentences give a bad feeling, because
terms of use and discontinuation of availability are interpretable in different
ways. I brought this up at gnu.misc.discuss and got agreement on this.

However, I assume NCAR is friendly and actually does meant the Open Source idea
when writing the license.

I will add NCAR Graphics to the FreeGIS page.
Thanks to Janko for this hint.

Jan

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