From kde-edu-devel  Mon Jun 23 14:39:48 2003
From: Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese () student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:39:48 +0000
To: kde-edu-devel
Subject: Re: [kde-edu-devel]  [Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>] Removing kstars
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Jason Harris writes:

> Hello, This is a non-issue; we don't use non-free data in kstars.
> The star catalog is not the Yale Bright Star Catalog, it's (a subset
> of) the SAO star catalog, from the ADC.

> <snip>

> Therefore, it is public domain.  What is the problem?

Here is the debian bug report that was referred to.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=198499

I think you should contact Ben Burton, the person who wrote the mail
that I quoted, to discuss this.  If the star data catalogs you
distribute are available under the public domain, as you say, then it
is no problem to relicense them under the GPL, and the whole item is
indeed a non-issue.  So this probably all amounts to a
misunderstanding, and I think you should contact Ben Burton as soon as
possible, to clear it up before he removes kstars from the debian
packages. 

I would find it very bad if kstars would not be part of kdeedu on
Debian, so I hope you can resolve this.

cheers
domi
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