Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Method for adding new NGC catalogue

[Fabien C. <fab...@gm...>]

Hi Thomas,
a long time ago I sent an email to Wolfgang Steinicke who agreed to
let us distribute his catalog, but the license was only for non
commercial projects, which is indeed not enough for being distributed
in the base Stellarium package.
Fabien


For reference he declared:

Steinicke wrote:
>
> Dear Fabien,
>
> thank your for your interest in my data.
>
> FC>   1- Would you accept that your updated NGC and IC catalogs are used and
> FC> distributed with stellarium as the base nebula catalogs?
>
> No problem. As you state, it is non-comercial. Thus there is only a
> credit needed, like the way you already mentioned.

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Thomas Morris <tom...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently merged the latest stellarium to my dev branch and moved to the
> May 2013 version of W Steinicke's NGC catalogue. I have been thinking about
> the best way for users to make use of it, bearing in mind the non-GPL
> license.
>
> I considered a plug-in, which would ask for confirmation from the user
> before downloading the catalogue for the first time. On the other hand, the
> nebula class is a core part of the code and may not be easy to override in a
> plug-in.
>
> Otherwise I was thinking to add the option to the config dialog, but it's
> already quite full. So I'd want to add a new tab, again the program would
> ask the user to accept the non-commercial usage license (which I need to
> agree with the author of the catalogue, Wolfgang Steinicke).
>
> Any comments welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
>
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