This package was debianized by Peter Galbraith on
Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:38:27 -0400.
It was downloaded from
ftp://ftp.flaterco.com/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20100529-nonfree.tar.bz2
Upstream Author:
Dave Flater
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 and is
licensed under the GPL Version or later, see
`/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
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