This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the netCDF Operators
(NCO).
This package was originally put together by Brian Mays
from software obtained from ftp://ftp.cgd.ucar.edu/pub/zender/nco
NCO package modifications for Debian GNU/Linux made from 1999-2002
are Copyright (C) Brian Mays and were released under the GPL
(on Debian systems see "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL").
Beginning March, 2003, Charlie Zender and Rorik Peterson took over
NCO Debian package maintenance merged them into the upstream source.
More information at package homepage http://nco.sourceforge.net
On June 15, 2003, Charlie Zender changed the NCO license, except where
explicitly noted otherwise, from GPL to GPL version 2 (not any later version).
Also at this time the explicit exceptions to the GPL for compatibility with
the HDF, netCDF, OPeNDAP, and UDUnits licenses were formally introduced.
NCO is copyright (C) 1995-2006 Charlie Zender
You may copy, distribute, and/or modify this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2
The full license text is at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
and in the file nco/doc/LICENSE in the NCO source distribution.
As a special exception to the terms of the GPL, you are permitted
to link the NCO source code with the HDF, netCDF, OPeNDAP, and UDUnits
libraries and to distribute the resulting executables under the terms
of the GPL, but in addition obeying the extra stipulations of the
HDF, netCDF, OPeNDAP, and UDUnits licenses.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
The original author of this software, Charlie Zender, wants to improve it
with the help of your suggestions, improvements, bug-reports, and patches.
Please contact the NCO project at http://nco.sf.net or write to
Charlie Zender
Department of Earth System Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3100
On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL".