[CF-metadata] conditions of use (of data)

[Bryan Lawrence]

hi Manuel

Obviously we've been worrying about this, and at the moment have the 
conditions of use in metadata outside the file ...

... however, the concept of having a pointer to a license inside a file had 
escaped me, and it oughtn't to have :-) :-) It's a good one, and would be 
analogous I think to the copyright claims in code etc ...

It might be interesting for us to talk about this offline ...

Meanwhile, it would be good to standardise on this within CF, as it would give 
code a chance to find and display conditions of use to users in an automagic 
way.

I would have thought we could have an optional global attribute of license, 
which could either be text or a uri. (I like the idea of license better 
because it's briefer, and reflects what one wants to happen).

Cheers,
Bryan


On Tuesday 21 September 2004 11:19, Manuel Fuentes wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I know this is a question a lot of people don't
> care about. Unfortunately, I have to care :-(
>
> Is there a way in CF to specify any conditions
> of use or restriction on the data contained in
> a netcdf file ? For example, something like:
>
> // global attributes:
> 	:conditions_of_use = "Data is restricted to academic users only"
>
> or
>
> 	:conditions_of_use = "http://data.ecmwf.int/data/d/license/"
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Manuel
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