<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Messaggio inoltrato ----------<br>Da: "Maurizio Napolitano" <<a href="mailto:napoogle@gmail.com">napoogle@gmail.com</a>><br>Data: 13/gen/2012 10:52<br>Oggetto: Re: [OSM-talk] OrbView-3 is public domain<br>
A: "hbogner" <<a href="mailto:hbogner@gmail.com">hbogner@gmail.com</a>><br><br type="attribution"><div class="quoted-text">On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:49, hbogner <<a href="mailto:hbogner@gmail.com">hbogner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Here is the final reply form USGS :D<br>
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</div>Nice!<br>
This is a very good news.<br>
Can you ask USGS to change the attachment on the downloaded files?<br>
I just downloaded some OrbView files and, i found, in attachment, a zip file<br>
with the name "unrestricted licesense.zip".<br>
Inside there is a text file with this text<br>
This sounds different to the public domain<br>
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