Here is an analysis of grads copyrights and licences.
Free software licences (complying with the OSI definition of Open Source)
and files.
A: the GPL
B: the most common netpbm licence (similar with BSD/MIT)
** Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
** documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided
** that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
** copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
** documentation. This software is provided "as is" without express or
** implied warranty.
C: miGIF licence (similar with BSD/MIT)
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
* documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided
* that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
* copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
* documentation. This software is provided "AS IS." The Hutchison Avenue
* Software Corporation disclaims all warranties, either express or implied,
* including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and
* fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to this code and accompanying
* documentation.
D: gd.h permissive licence
Permission granted to use this code in any fashion provided
that this notice is retained and any alterations are
labeled as such. It is requested, but not required, that
you share extensions to this module with us so that we
can incorporate them into new versions. */
E: gd licence like of gxeps
* * Permission has been granted to copy and distribute gxeps in any
* context, including a commercial application, provided that this notice
* is present in user-accessible supporting documentation.
*
* This does not affect your ownership of the derived work itself, and
* the intent
* is to assure proper credit for the authors of gxeps, not to interfere
* with your productive use of gxeps. If you have questions, ask.
* "Derived works" includes all programs that utilize gxeps.
* Credit must be given in user-accessible documentation.
*
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
* documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided
* that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
* copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
* documentation. This software is provided "as is" without express or
* implied warranty.
F: public domain, as said in a mail by Matthias Munnich
G: permissive licence (like BSD/MIT)
/* | Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software | */
/* | and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby | */
/* | granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all | */
/* | copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission | */
/* | notice appear in supporting documentation. This software is | */
/* | provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. | */
H: public domain for wgrib
The following files are placed into the public domain. While
you could legally do anything you want with the code, telling
the world that you wrote it would be uncool. Selling it would
be really uncool. The code was written for NMC/NCAR Reanalysis
and may not work GRIB files from other sources. The code,
as usual, is not warranteed to be fit for any purpose what so ever.
Use at your own risk.
I: public domain. From a mail sent by Don Hooper:
Julia Collins and I are University of Colorado employees stationed
at NOAA, a U.S. federal government agency. Thus, we do our work on
federal government computers. Thus, all of our work is in the public
domain. [...] I've no idea why there is no notation to this effect in
gasdf.c, gasdf.h, or gasdf_std_time.h. In any case, it's the same as
with wgrib.c, written by another person affilliated with NOAA. U.S.
federal government stuff is public domain, period.
IGES means Brian Doty and IGES for most if not all files (haven't verified).
bufrscan.c (A) IGES
bufrstn.c (A) IGES
dodstn.c (A) IGES
gabufr.c (A) IGES
gabufrtbl.c (A) IGES
gaddes.c (A) IGES
gaexpr.c (A) IGES
gafunc.c (A) IGES
gagmap.c (A) IGES
gagmap.h (A) IGES
gagui.c (A) Arlindo da Silva
gagx.c (A) IGES
gaio.c (A) IGES
gamach.c (A) IGES
gasdf.c (I) Don Hooper
gasdf.h (I) Julia Collins and Don Hooper
gasdf_std_time.h (I) Julia Collins
gauser.c (A) IGES
gautil.c (A) IGES
grads.c (A) IGES
grads.h (A) IGES
grib2scan.c (A) IGES
gribmap.c (A) IGES
gscrpt.c (A) IGES
gsgui.h (A) Arlindo da Silva
gs.h (A) IGES
gxchpl.c (A) IGES
gxcntr.c (A) IGES
gxeps.c (E) Matthias Munnich
gxgif.c (F) Matthias Munnich
(D) Cold Spring Harbor Labs
(B) Jef Poskanzer
(G) David Koblas
gx.h (A) IGES
gxhpng.c (A) Matthias Munnich and Brian Doty
gxmeta.c (A) IGES
gxps.c (A) IGES
gxshad.c (A) IGES
gxstrm.c (A) IGES
gxsubs.c (A) IGES
gxtran.c (A) IGES
gxwmap.c (A) IGES
gxX.c (A) IGES
stnmap.c (A) IGES
wgrib.c (H) public domain
wx.h (A) IGES
gs-mode.el (A) Joe Wielgosz
ctl-mode.el (A) Joe Wielgosz
doc/* (A) IGES haven't checked all the files!
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??: no copyright and no licence
galloc.c (??)
gatypes.h (??) small file
gribscan.c (??)
gstmp.c (??)
gvt.h (??)
gxdxwd.c (??)
gxmap.h (??) small file
mtable.c (??) small file
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The following are non free licences and non free files. Some parts of the
files may be under a free licence described above, though.
?: no licence. The file isn't free because there is no licence.
Z: cannot be sold for profit
* Permission is granted to any individual or institution to use,
* copy, or redistribute this software so long as it is not sold for
* profit, and provided this notice is retained.
gacfg.c (Z) IGES
gagui.h (Z) Arlindo da Silva