Package: xtide-data-nonfree / 20070318-2

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This package was debianized by Peter Galbraith <psg@debian.org> on
Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:38:27 -0400.

It was downloaded from
 ftp://ftp.flaterco.com/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20070318.tcd.bz2

Upstream Author: 

    Dave Flater <dave@flaterco.com>

Copyright: 

    Copyright of various parts of the data set are held by different
    parties.  See below.

License:

The Debian packaging is (C) 2007, Peter Galbraith <psg@debian.org> and
is licensed under the GPL, see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.

The data are licensed as follows, from
http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/harmonics_boilerplate.txt :

# Canada:  The harmonic constants used to perform tide predictions for
# locations in Canada are derived from sea level data made available
# by Marine Environmental Data Services, Fisheries and Oceans Canada,
# for public, non-commercial use.  The predictions are not the same as
# those computed by the Canadian Hydrographic Service, which uses its
# own sets of harmonic constants.
#
#   Copyright notice for the sea level data at
#   http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/meds/About_MEDS/copyright_e.htm:
#
#   Non-commercial Reproduction
#
#   Information on this site has been posted with the intent that it be
#   readily available for personal and public non-commercial use and may
#   be reproduced, in part or in whole and by any means, without charge
#   or further permission from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans
#   Canada.  We ask only that:
#
#     * Users exercise due diligence in ensuring the accuracy of the
#     materials reproduced;
#
#     * The Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada be identified as
#     the source department; and,
#
#     * The reproduction is not represented as an official version of
#     the materials reproduced, nor as having been made, in
#     affiliation with or with the endorsement of the Department of
#     Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
#
# Netherlands:  The Netherlands data was contributed directly by Koos
# Doekes of the Rijkswaterstaat RIKZ/ZDI, who grants permission by his
# own authority:
#
#         Herewith I grant permission for non-commercial use
#         of all harmonic constants for the Netherlands by
#         users of Xtide or Xtide-based products.
#
#         This covers the use of the constants for Dutch
#         ports in the Xtide-database by designers
#         of web applications, and the use in commercial
#         tidal prediction software in which the constants 
#         themselves are not stored - i.e. the user has
#         to copy them from the Xtide-database himself.
#
#         It does NOT cover the use in commercial software
#         in which the constants are incorporated, which is
#         considered commercial use of the constants here.
#         Any request for permission of use of Dutch constants
#         in software of this kind should be redirected to
#         RIKZ.
#
# Germany:  The Germany data was contributed directly by Wolfgang
# Lange of the Bundesamt fuer Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH),
# who grants permission by his own authority:
#
#         As long as you make your software using these tidal data
#         freely available, I grant permission for non-commercial use
#         of the harmonic constants for the 12 reference stations at
#         the German North Sea coast on the same conditions and rules
#         layed down in the letter from Koos Doekes, RIKZ/ZDI,
#         concerning the Netherlands harmonic constituents.
#
# UK:  Received 2003-11-15 DWF.  See also http://www.flaterco.com/pol.html.
#
#                                         Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
#                                         Natural Environment Research Council
#
#                                         Bidston Observatory
#                                         Bidston Hill
#                                         Prenton
#                                         Merseyside
#                                         CH43 7RA
#                                         United Kingdom
# David Flater
# 13320 Country Ridge Drive               Tel +44 (0) 151 653 8633
# Germantown, MD  20874                   Fax +44 (0) 151 653 6269
# United States of America                www.pol.ac.uk
#
#
#                                         07 November 2003
#
# Dear David,
#
# This letter is to confirm that we are happy for you to download the
# sea level data from the British Oceanographic Data Centre website and
# use this in the generation of harmonic constants using the HarmGen
# software.  However there are a couple of things that we would politely
# ask that you do.
#
# 1.  Limit the number of harmonic constants you use in the software to
# a maximum of 40 for any port.  This should easily be enough to create
# very accurate tidal predictions as for nearly all locations, any
# harmonics left out (i.e. the 41st most significant constants onwards)
# will have amplitudes of the order of a centimetre.
#
# 2.  State that the data is derived from sea level data obtained from
# the British Oceanographic Data Centre based at the Proudman
# Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool.
#
# 3.  Make it clear that the predictions however are not the same as
# those computed by the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory which uses its
# own sets of harmonic constants.
#
# 4.  Continue to make your software using the data freely available.
# Please inform us if you intend to produce a software product that you
# will be making a charge for.
#
# I hope these conditions are acceptable to you and it will be good to
# see the UK back on the map.
#
# Yours sincerely,
# Colin Bell
# Head of Applications Group