Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contouring a large set of ungridded data

[Robert K. <rk...@uc...>]

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>>"Robert" == Robert Kern <rk...@uc...> writes:
> 
>     Robert> In any case, natgrid isn't Delaunay triangulation, but
>     Robert> natural neighbors interpolation which is better (and
>     Robert> probably state of the art for these kinds of graphics). It
>     Robert> might be easiest to contact Dave Watson and ask if we can
>     Robert> distribute his code in matplotlib under matplotlib's
>     Robert> license.  I can't find any contact information for him,
>     Robert> however.
> 
> I'm all for this but am not optimistic.  It's my understanding that
> the NCAR folks are under a fairly heavy legal burden.  Jeff: could you
> spearhead this effort and see if there is any interest on their part
> in relicensing their griddata code under a more permissive license?

It's not NCAR's code, it's Dave Watson's. NCAR got permission to
distribute the natgrid code under the GPL. We'd need to get independent
permission from Dave Watson to distribute the code under the matplotlib
license.

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Robert Kern
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