OpenSource

Using OpenSource repositories and an OpenSource blog, sternons is – as elsewhere stressed – an OpenSource project. That means that the program and all components of it are OpenSource, more specifically GNU LGPL (except the catalogues derived from Public Domain catalogues in publicly available data repositories). Keeping OpenSource and Public Domain where applicable is a compulsive holy moral instituted by God – the Golden Rule, valid in all major and most minor religions.

Added OpenSource licenses in revision 59 (and my copyright in rev 60 which is needed for preserving the copyleft). The development have been relatively down last week due to my administration and some tedious travelling.

When trying to get a clear view over what documentation licenses are used at CDS repository I found almost no information at all, except a few instructions about acknowledgements. The grand exception is the notorious NGC 2000.0 from Sky Publishing Corporation and some dubious notices in the NGC/IC Project making the copyright of the catalogue VII/239A dubious. To be avoided. Instead the NGC-related catalog to be used for "nebulae" is VII/1B (RNGC), which appears to be free.