On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Hello. I'm not currently a member of the list, so please CC me.
Me too.
As per the public announcement archived at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/swisseph/message/1918 the current version 1.74 of the Swiss Ephemeris astronomy library has been released under a dual-licensing scheme, with the "GPL 2 or later" being the DFSG-compatible open source license. Previously (until version 1.73) they used a non-DFSG compatible license, the Swiss Ephemeris Public License (see http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#head-1ee6c9e79e063c30e134ca02bff7af1bd5bbcef1 ) as the "open-source" license. But after months of my humble effort (mostly consisting of repeated mails to their mailing list but nothing more than that), they have now switched to the GPL.
Good job! Thanks.
This list has previously helped me regarding what licensing policy to suggest to them etc, so I felt I should echo their announcement here and say thanks for all those who helped me. Special Note to Shri Jaldhar Vyas, who according to http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/10/msg00286.html was the person who first wanted to Debianise Swisseph and brought the DFSG-incompatibility of their license to light: Please now make appropriate arrangements for the speedy debianization of the now DFSG-compatible Swiss Ephemeris library. (I am unable to help in this as I am not sufficiently technically competent.)
I still have my old packaging. I need to make sure it is uptodate with regards to policy before I can upload it.
Also my package includes the ephemeris data for 1800AD-2200AD. It just occured to me that this may or may not be covered under the new license. Can you check with the authors? The package will work if I omit these files but obviously it will be more useful if users don't have to download and install them themselves.
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