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Summary: Review Request: xtide - Calculate tide all over the world
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211626
------- Additional Comments From mtasaka(a)ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp 2006-10-23 08:08 EST
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(In reply to comment #32)
That kind of data may be legally redistributed by fedora, however
it will be troublesome if somebody sells fedora. So they definitively
cannot be packaged as-is. It seems to me that the best thing to do
would be to add a README/something in the description in the packages
needing the harmonics file and provide a shell script which does a
wget on the file, run the tcd-util conversion on it and install,
or alternatively download directly the .tcd file.
Well, I will try to contact upstream (perhaps for harmonics data,
It is Bob Kenney <rmk(a)unh.edu> according to
http://bel-marduk.unh.edu/xtide/files.html ), however, perhaps the
best plan FOR NOW is not to provide harmonics data from Fedora
and provide some document as of how to get harmonics tcd data.
The wvs file should be used (provided the licence is acceptable for
fedora). I couldn't find the licence at the url provided at the xtide
page. Maybe ask upstream or the NOAA?
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/93mgg01.html
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/relief/ETOPO5/BOUNDARY/WVS/
Well, once I tried to check WVS data, however this are binary data and
perhaps I cannot verify legal issue until I contact to upstream.
From reading of the code, one can set the WVS_DIR variable to
the directory holding the wvs data files, or it may be listed in
xtide.conf.
It seems to me that WVS_DIR must be set for tideEditor.
Well, I must check the code because currently don't know how
the environment WVS_DIR is used (is this needed?)
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Summary:
A. I will try to contact upstream, however, my current plan is to
completely drop harmonics data from binary rpm and add a document
for this issue (I would appeciate it if you make some template for
this).
A-1 By the way providing some shell script is necessary?
I think only explaining how to get tcd data is more preferable
because anyway people have to browse a URL to choose the original
harmonics text.
B. I will check WVS_DIR in source code.
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Is it okay?
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