There was some traffic here a few months ago about this. Nay current
news?

Ari?

There is an initiative underway to remove all NGA aeronautical
products from the public domain, effective 1 October 2005.

ftp://164.214.2.112/dafif/dafif_0507_ed8/README.TXT

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