Hello legal team,I would like to package GNU spacechart application [1], but I'm not sure if we can ship their data files. Gnu Space Chart is a 3D star-mapping program that uses data (not directly the catalogue [2], only set of data from there) with this copyright notice:
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Catalogues available at CDS contain scientific data distributed
for free, for a scientific usage. Only the expenses related to
copying and mailing are charged if relevant.
Companies including such data in their commercial products cannot
charge their clients for the data. Furthermore, users must be informed
of the origin of the data: this means an explicit reference to the
service
provided by the CDS and also to the original author(s) of each
catalogue.
##################################################################Now, I'm not sure if we can ship it with Fedora, because even if someone sell Fedora for money, they sell the program and not data directly. However I don't know how the law looks on this problem.
Any ideas? Workarounds? [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/spacechart/#download [2] http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/ Thanks, -- Marek Mahut https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy/ Fedora Project http://www.jamendo.com/
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