> Good news! I emailed them and Gustavo Bruzual responded promptly giving me his permission. Also, he seems genuinely curious about HDF5 and I gave him a quick overview of it, and a link to the main HDF5 webpage. He said they are readying a new set of tables and I'm guessing he wants a better way to package the data than they did last time.
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This is GREAT news.  Thank you very much for taking the lead on this,
and for adding this to the code.  I think there's some great science
to be done with this, and I like the direction you are taking with the
code.

Again, good work, and thanks.

-Matt

I'll second that.  This is a super-useful thing to have in yt, and I'm sure we'll get a lot of mileage out of it.  Are you going to post the hdf5 file on a website somewhere, then?

--Brian