Hi folks, I'm working on a US-government-funded flight planner for a NASA airborne astronomy mission (SOFIA). Airborne astronomy has worked in true headings for over 30 years due to ever-antiquated NASA INS systems, but the spec has recently changed to magnetic. So, I get to code up a magnetic variation model. SimGear has one, and it's simpler than anything else out there. Unfortunately, it claims GPLv2. That would force NASA's hand at releasing the planner code publicly, not something I can do as a contractor (nor would it be useful to anyone -- AFAIK, SOFIA is the only airworthy aircraft in existence that does not fly the wind triangle). So, I seek permission to use the pair of files coremag.hxx and coremag.cxx without releasing the "entire work." I would like to modify it to read coefficients from a file, so we can update it to stay consistent with our FMS, to localize the namespace, and to excise it from SimGear (no SG #includes). I will ask if I can contribute this to the SimGear project, but it's not very likely. Please e-mail in addition to replying to the list.
Much appreciated. Michael A. K. Gross -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael A. K. Gross Fat manuals are a reliable Scientific Software Systems Specialist (S4) symptom of failure. Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy -- Niklaus Wirth, 10/20/04 NASA/Ames Research Center, MS 211-3 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Tel: +1 (650) 604-4975 mgr...@mail.sofia.usra.edu Fax: +1 (650) 604-0985 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
