bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (04/02/91)
Archive-name: graphics/maps/wxmap/1991-04-01
Archive: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/wxmap-1.11.tar.Z [128.174.5.50]
Original-posting-by: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
Original-subject: Re: wxmap access denied?
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
In article <25268@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1111a@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox) writes:
...Now all I get is:
!!! Server failed: Data restricted to uiuc.edu only per Alden/Zephyr licensing, sorry.
Anyone know what the story is behind this?
Just like the error message said, licensing issues constrain them to
restrict distribution of the information displayed by wxmap. Bummer.
Here's what the author said about it:
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 09:57:03 CST
Reply-To: WXMAP-L@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU
Sender: Discussions about the wxmap program <WXMAP-L@UIUCVMD>
Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was kline@GARCON.CSO.UIUC.EDU
From: Charley Kline <c-kline@UIUC.EDU>
Subject: sorry, folks.
I just got off the phone with Lenny Giuliano at Alden/Zephyr. The
University of Illinois cannot release any data obtained from Alden to
the Internet without paying an additional $150/month licensing fee. I
haven't tried this out on my manager yet, but I can tell you what the
answer will be.
So, it's been great while it lasted, thanks a lot for all your great
ideas, most of them made it into patchlevel 1.11, which was to go out
today (I'll still stick it out there, for what it's worth.
The server is out there, as well, on uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, as
pub/wxserver.tar.Z. All it takes is a system with a serial line and a
few cycles left over, and an Alden DD+ downlink, and you all can have
fun with wxmap again.
I'll continue work on this, of course, since it's a U of I network
service, and continue to make all my code available for anonymous
FTP.
IF there is some major reinterpretation of the contract with
Alden/Zephyr, things may be turned back on, and some discussions with
UNIDATA led me to believe that this may happen for University sites,
but I wouldn't get my hopes up.
Thank you all again.