[R-pkg-team] r-cran-cubelyr_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Hadley Wickham]

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 <andreas at 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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