Package: wnpp Owner: Ole Streicher <oleb...@debian.org> Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-as...@lists.debian.org
* Package name : astrometry-data-tycho2 Version : 41 Upstream Author : Dustin Lang * URL : http://data.astrometry.net/ * License : To Be Investigated Description : Star catalogs for astrometry.net from Tycho-2 Astrometry.net needs complete catalogs of star positions, which are provided with several resolutions in these packages. This catalogue has a much smaller footprint than the 2MASS catalog and may be packaged locally instead of downloaded. However, the license is unclear; the catalog hoster (Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg [1]) seems to use a science-related, commercial-restricted license for their catalogs, which already caused a lengthy discussion about the same catalog for kstars [2]. However, the discussion there was about the catalog hoster, not the catalog itself For this, I started to contact the original author and will start a dicussion within the astronomy community to see if and how we can free the catalog (kstars will then benefit as well). The package will be maintained within the Debian Astronomy Team. Best regards Ole [1] http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/ [2] https://bugs.debian.org/681654
