Hello all, I would like to create a package for szip, a compression software to be used by hdf4/5 and netcdf. I know that it is free for non-comercial use. Also, Fedora used to have this package in the past, but removed it from their repositories. I'm not sure what the OpenSuse policies are on this matter. Therefore I'm copying the license below. Thank you all for the attention. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SZIP Copyright and License Notice The SZIP Science Data Lossless Compression Program is Copyright (C) 2001 Science & Technology Corporation @ UNM. All rights released. Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Lowell H. Miles and Jack A. Venbrux. Licensed to ICs, LLC, for distribution by the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications as a part of the HDF data storage and retrieval file format and software library products package. All rights reserved. Do not modify or use for other purposes. SZIP implements an extended Rice adaptive lossless compression algorithm for sample data. The primary algorithm was developed by R. F. Rice at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. SZIP embodies certain inventions patented by the National Aeronautics & Space Administration. United States Patent Nos. 5,448,642, 5,687,255, and 5,822,457 have been licensed to ICs, LLC, for distribution with the HDF data storage and retrieval file format and software library products. All rights reserved. Revocable (in the event of breach by the user or if required by law), royalty-free, nonexclusive sublicense to use SZIP decompression software routines and underlying patents is hereby granted by ICs, LLC, to all users of and in conjunction with HDF data storage and retrieval file format and software library products. Revocable (in the event of breach by the user or if required by law), royalty-free, nonexclusive sublicense to use SZIP compression software routines and underlying patents for non-commercial, scientific use only is hereby granted by ICs, LLC, to users of and in conjunction with HDF data storage and retrieval file format and software library products. For commercial use license to SZIP compression software routines and underlying patents, please contact ICs, LLC, at Address: ICs, LLC, 2040 Warren Wagon Road, P.O. Box 2236 McCall, ID 83638 Phone: (208) 315-2877. Fax: (208) 634-7720. Email: support@ics4chips.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org