dmca/2016/2016-12-29-NEAT-CounterNotice.md

**Are you the owner of the content that has been disabled, or authorized to act on the owner's behalf?**

Yes.

**What files were taken down? Please provide URLs for each file, or if the entire repository, the repository's URL:**  
https://github.com/equib/proEQUIB  
https://github.com/equib/pyEQUIB

**Do you want to make changes to your repository or do you want to dispute the notice?**

The allegation of infringement by [private] (github ID: rwesson, email: [private]) is false and incorrect. The material in question written in IDL and Python, wheres he wrote his code in FORTRAN. The material in question is not the same, moreover is not copyrighted. It is therefore in the public domain and may be reproduced by anyone. I took them from  
https://trac.stsci.edu/ssb/stsci_python/browser/stsdas/trunk/stsdas/lib/synphot/ebmvlfunc.x  
https://trac.stsci.edu/ssb/stsci_python/browser/stsdas/trunk/stsdas/lib/synphot/ebmvlfunc.x  
https://trac.stsci.edu/ssb/stsci_python/browser/stsdas/branches/calacs_mrdavis/stsdas/pkg/analysis/nebular/redcorr/redlaw.x
https://github.com/equib/EQUIB/tree/master/source  
https://github.com/equib/MOCASSIN-2.0/tree/master/data  

They are not from   
https://github.com/rwesson/NEAT  
NEAT used many public codes (EQUIB, STSDAS deredden functions and X-W. Liu's MIDAS ORL scripts, UCL atomic data). Roger Wesson is not the copyright owner of them.

Furthermore, the complainant has provided no proof that I used his code copyright registration information or other tangible evidence that the material in question is in fact copyrighted, and I have a good faith belief that it is not. The allegation of copyright violation is therefore in dispute, and at present unsupported.

My code has be registered here:  
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ascl.soft11022D
http://ascl.net/1611.022  
His allegation of infringement is false.

**Is there anything else you think we should know about why you believe the material was removed as a result of a mistake? (optional)**

My use of the material is legally protected because it falls within the "fair use" provision of the copyright regulations, as defined in the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. You are under no obligation to settle this dispute, or to take any action to restrict my repositories at the behest of this false complainant.

**Type (or copy and paste) the following statement: "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled."**

I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.

**Type (or copy and paste) the following statement: "I consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which my address is located (if in the United States, otherwise the Northern District of California where GitHub is located), and I will accept service of process from the person who provided the DMCA notification or an agent of such person."**

I consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which my address is located and I will accept service of process from the person who provided the DMCA notification or an agent of such person.

**Please confirm that you have you have read our Guide to Submitting a DMCA Counter Notice: https://help.github.com/articles/guide-to-submitting-a-dmca-counter-notice/**

I confirm that I have read your Guide to Submitting a DMCA Counter Notice.

**So that the complaining party can get back to you, please provide both your telephone number and physical address:**  

[private]

**Please type your full legal name below to sign this request:**

[private]