This file is intended to clarify ownership, copyrights and licenses. Where possible individual files also carry brief copyright notices. RNetCDF ======= All files except those indicated later are Copyright (C) 2004-2024 Pavel Michna and Milton Woods. They are licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. See http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/GPL-2 for license details. NetCDF ====== The documentation of RNetCDF is based on the "NetCDF User's Guide for C", and installation of RNetCDF requires linking with the Unidata NetCDF library. These uses of NetCDF are allowed by the NetCDF copyright: Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata. Portions of this software were developed by the Unidata Program at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Access and use of this software shall impose the following obligations and understandings on the user. 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In no event shall The HDF Group or the Contributors be liable for any damages suffered by the users arising out of the use of this software, even if advised of the possibility of such damage. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contributors: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Fortner Software, Unidata Program Center (netCDF), The Independent JPEG Group (JPEG), Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler (gzip), and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Portions of HDF5 were developed with support from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the United States Department of Energy under Prime Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Portions of HDF5 were developed with support from the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (UC LLNL). 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