Hmmm, I think that text is incorrect — NASA is a US federal agency and hence in the public domain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_the_federal_government_of_the_United_States). Not to mention that data isn't copyrightable in the US, anyway.
Hadley On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 3:01 AM Andreas Tille <andr...@fam-tille.de> wrote: > > Hi Hadley, > > I'm about to package cubelyr for Debian. Our ftpmaster was asking for > explicite copyright statement of the data imported from NASA. As far as > I know NASA is issuing data under public domain but I can not find any > explicite statement inside your download tarball. Could you please > clarify this? > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 09:00:09PM +0000, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: > > > > Hi Andreas, > > > > some note in the files imported from NASA says: "see important copyright > > terms below" > > But what are these copyright terms? > > > > Thorsten > > > > > > > > > > === > > > > Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why > > your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our > > concerns. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-pkg-team mailing list > > r-pkg-t...@alioth-lists.debian.net > > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r-pkg-team > > -- > http://fam-tille.de -- http://hadley.nz
