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On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:33:01AM +1000, Ben Burton wrote:
>=20
> Hi.
>=20
> (CCing this to the person who reported the kstars licensing issue and to
> the corresponding debian bug number.)
>=20
> > This is a non-issue; we don't use non-free data in kstars.  The star ca=
talog=20
> > is not the Yale Bright Star Catalog, it's (a subset of) the SAO star ca=
talog,=20
> > from the ADC.
> >=20
> > As stated in the ADC FAQ, all of its data catalogs are in the public do=
main,=20
> > unless otherwise stated in the catalog's README:
> > http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc/questions_feedback.html#policies1%22
>=20
> Rightio.  I'll add this information to the kstars copyright file and
> keep it in kdeedu (in debian main).  It might be worth adding this
> information (including the appropriate extract from the ADC FAQ) to a
> README file of some sort in the kstars distribution, in order to avoid
> further confusion for other distributions.

Not trying to be a smart ass here. But the ADC FAQ talks about the ADC=20
data, that is, that produced by the NASA Astronomical Data Center. The SAO=
=20
was provided by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory which is hardly=
=20
the same institution.

Following Jason's reasoning it would seem that the ADC "public-domain"=20
license would apply also to the Hipparcos star data catalogue, developed by=
=20
the ESA (which is not even in the same country) and this is hardly the=20
case. Miguel Coca (spacechart's upstream maintainer) contacted the ESA=20
people and they did say that he was free to use this catalogue in=20
spacechart, redistribute it and modify it, but they did not mention it was=
=20
in the public domain (please see spacechart's debian/copyright file for=20
more information on this).

I do not think ADC's FAQ applies to the SAO data. ADC will no longer exist=
=20
in some time, it's replacement's (such as the French Vizier [1]) does not=
=20
say catalogues are in the public domain.

Could someone please approach people working at either of these places and=
=20
clarify this issue? A search on "star catalogues licenses" in google brings=
=20
nothing really useful.

Regards

Javi


[1] http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/CDS.html

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