On Lunes, 16 de julio de 2012 19:05:17 Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > > And between these : > > License: > > > > X-Original-Data-License: > > Did Akarsh Simha get permission from the "original data copyright > > holders" to redistribute the data under the terms of the GPL version 1 ? > > Not needed as original data were PD.
By the way, I've confirmed that Akarsh and Jason checked with Norbert Zacharias from USNO (place where they get the data originally) that data are Public Domain. Excerpt below: > >>>No licence on these product. Among others, USNO's mission is > >>>"... to serve the astronomical community ..." and we Gov't > >>>workers don't carry copyrights at all. However, proper reference > >>>to USNO and products in any readme-type documentation and > >>>publication > >>>is required. A letter of thanks after a major support is also nice > >>>to get from time to time. We are constantly under budget pressure > >>>and have to "prove" that the catalogs we produce are actually > >>>used/needed by someone. Regards Noel Torres er Envite
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